Englar is applying decades of his own research to an aeronautical oddity that hasn't always been recognized as a good idea: the Custer Channel Wing. The channel wing, which takes its name from the semicircular trough each wing forms below the engine, is a 1940s design that didn't get past a prototype. But the channels, which seem out of place, if not freakish, in an airplane's wing, generate high levels of lift, and that opens up all sorts of design possibilities.
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