How HopFlyt’s Cyclone Drone Puts a Century-Old Lift Idea to Work with its Channel Wing Design
Photo credit: Custer Research Foundation | HopFlyt Willard Ray Custer filed patents in the 1920s for a wing shaped like a curved trough. A propeller sat inside that half-circle channel and forced air across the surface. The goal was simple. Lift should come from moving air over the wing, not from racing the entire aircraft [...]
Photo credit: Custer Research Foundation | HopFlyt Willard Ray Custer filed patents in the 1920s for a wing shaped like a curved trough. A propeller sat inside that half-circle channel and forced air across the surface. The goal was simple. Lift should come from moving air over the wing, not from racing the entire aircraft [...]
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