Sayap kanal

Channelwing aircraft

Pictures of the Custer CCW-1

Sayap Channel adalah prinsip sayap pesawat yang dikembangkan oleh Willard Ray Custer pada tahun 1920. Bagian paling penting dari sayap terdiri dari setengah tabung dengan mesin ditempatkan di tengah. Bagian kemudi baling-baling ditempatkan di ujung belakang saluran dibentuk oleh setengah tabung.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhFlxbV-AU http://www.angelfire.com/va3/bythefire/

Referensi

• Donald Liska - Channelwing aircraft, The Wisconsin engineer Vol. 57, Nr. 6, pp 16 –19, October 1957, [1]
• Kevin Brown - Cockpit-Testing the Legendary Channel-Wing, Popular Mechanics, September 1964
• Robert Englar, Brian Campbell - Development of Pneumatic Channel Wing Powered-Lift Advanced Super-STOL Aircraft, 1st Flow Control Conference 24–26 June 2002, AIAA 2002-3275, St. Luis, Missouri, 2002
• Walt Boyne - The Custer Channel Wing Story, Airpower Magazine, Volume 7 No.3 May 1977
• Unknown author - Custer's Production Model Takes Bow, Air Progress Magazine, October/November, 1964
• Unknown author - Channel Wing Flown in Demonstration, Aviation Week, September 28, 1959

Pranala luar

• Custer-Channelwing Website Archive
• Another Custer Channel Wing Website
• Video of Custer explaining his theories and actual flight footage
• Pictures of the Custer CCW-1National Air and Space Museum Diarsipkan 2007-06-10 di Wayback Machine.
• Pictures of the Custer CCW-5 Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania
• Modern channelwing aircraft design Diarsipkan 2008-02-02 di Wayback Machine. Stavatti designed channelwing transport for the 2000s