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Description
| Manufacturer: | Custer | |
| Base model: | CCW | |
| Designation: | CCW | |
| Version: | -5 | |
| Nickname: | Channel Wing | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Mid-Atlantic Air Museum | Reading | Pennsylvania |
CCW-5 on display
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Vince , IN | tadalafil sildenafil finasteride tadalafil viagra buy viagra orlistat buy celexa 06/05/2008 @ 04:37 [ref: 21125] |
| Vince Homer Ridgecrest, CA | Good luck with your model. Mine will be a little longer getting finished as I have just accepted a six month assignment in Kuwait. I suggest you find someone who is already an accomplished RC pilot to walk you through the first flights. That's what I intend to do whenever we get to the flight stage. Most areas have an RC club and there is always at least one "hotshot" pilot in the group.
My email address will be the same while in Kuwait. Vince Homer 11/18/2007 @ 01:01 [ref: 18578] |
| Ron Hutchinson Vancouver, BC | My first awareness of the "Custer wing" was via Bill Green, about 7 weeks ago. His email address no longer works, so I'm seeking another party who is active in modelling this type of machine.
I Have almost finished my model. It has a single channel and outboard wings. It's small, wing span 39" and overall length about 38". If it shows "some promise" when I bench test it, it might be of interest to some other enthusiast. But don't hold your breath. I am 82 yrs old, retired at 70 and have since made 6 conventional machines and destroyed 5 of them because I cannot manipulate the radio controls quickly enough. Regards. Hutch. 11/08/2007 @ 18:19 [ref: 18470] |
| Vincent Homer Ridgecrest, CA | I recently got my RC CCW model down from the rafters of my shop and we are in the process of finishing it.
We are using 700 watt outrunner eletric motors powered by two 3000 mah LiPo batteries with an electronic speed control for each motor. The model started as a 1/4 scale version of a Titan Tornado experimental aircraft made from pink foam with 1 oz fiberglass covering. The spars and tail boom are carbon fiber tubes from deep sea fishing rods and arrow shafts. The channels were made by turning a 14 inch diameter, 12 inch chord ring wing and cutting it in half. The channels are mounted with approximately 3 inches of straight wing between each and the fuselage and 12 inch outboard wing sections. The ailerons are on the outboard wings and a smaller chord section in the outboard half of each channel. The model used a 7 channel radio which allows us to also have brakes on the main wheels. The model uses a full flying elevator in an effort to get enough pitch control to put the tail boom on the ground with the brakes locked. We are also using a piezo gyro for roll control to make takeoffs and landings less challenging. I'll try to keep everyone posted as to the progress. 09/29/2007 @ 21:51 [ref: 18055] |
| Andrew Daylor Oswego, IL | This is a response for Bruce Green from Elgin, IL.
I am quite interested in learning and working with Custer's ideas and designs, but with lighter materials and more efficient engines. Feel free to contact me @ Andrewdaylor@comcast.net 08/14/2007 @ 14:17 [ref: 17604] |
| Vincent Homer Ridgecrest, CA | I would love to get a copy of the article on the CCW model as mentioned in your posting. I did some wind tunnel work for Custer in 1970 and published an article in the AIAA Journal of Aircraft. I also have an RC model hanging in my shop that I started a few years ago and somehow never got around to finishing.
Vincent Homer 1216 Denise Ave. Ridgecrest, CA 93555 03/02/2007 @ 01:48 [ref: 15720] |
| John Lockwood Layton, UT | While at an antiques fair last week I noticed an old Popular Mechanics magazine, Jun 1947, that had a cover picture of a 'future' airplane with the channel wing. Because it was in a wrap I was not able to review the article but I figured it must be related to Mr Custer's design work. As an RC aircraft modeler I was tempted to buy the issue but I already have too much stuff (just ask my wife!). Also, several years ago there was an RC model made of the CCW-5 that was displayed at the annual Quarter Scale modelers get-together at Las Vegas. It is also fetured (pictured) in the now defunct Scale RC Modeler magazine of which I have all except one issue. I do not know if the model ever flew. If anyone would like a copy of the article they can contact me and I will dig it out and run copy(s) for them.
John L. 02/09/2007 @ 10:44 [ref: 15465] |
| Joseph L. Freire Huntington Station, NY | I flew the CCW-5 while working for Devore Engineering
back in the 70's. I was employed as an Engineer by Devore Engineering, but I was also a pilot and flew the CCW-5 during its preliminary certification tests. I have a lot of photographs taken with the CCW-5 during that period. 10/03/2006 @ 07:30 [ref: 14352] |
| Larry W James Austin, TX | In the early 1970s there was a CCW-5 at Wiley Post airport in OKC. I was able to take a few pictures (slides). One problem with the design is what would happen if an engine failed. If there is truly as much lift as Custer claimed from the "channels," it must be hard to keep the plane from rolling inverted with loss of power of one engine.
The clearance between the propellers and the trailing edge of the channels is, indeed, quite small. I recognized the plane the first time I saw it. I remembered a picture, and perhaps an article, in the old Air Progress magazine when it was a quarterly. LWJ 01/23/2006 @ 22:59 [ref: 12249] |
| Joel Custer , VA | Another site is www.angelfire.com/va3/bythefire/index.html.
I'm still posting previously published newspaper and magazine articles, etc. CCW patents are also listed. Spread the word! 04/25/2002 @ 09:06 [ref: 4795] |
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