Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Willard Ray Custer (born June 6, 1899 in Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, died December 25, 1985 in Hagerstown, Maryland) was an American engineer and aircraft visionary, inventor of the channel wing concept. He was a great grandnephew of George Armstrong Custer.Custer left school at age 13, working as a blacksmith, and later an engineer and mechanic.The inspiration to the channel wing concept came in 1925, when Custer had observed how the roof of a barn was lifted during a very strong gust of wind.. }
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- Willard_Ray_Custer comment "Willard Ray Custer (born June 6, 1899 in Warfordsburg, Pennsylvania, died December 25, 1985 in Hagerstown, Maryland) was an American engineer and aircraft visionary, inventor of the channel wing concept. He was a great grandnephew of George Armstrong Custer.Custer left school at age 13, working as a blacksmith, and later an engineer and mechanic.The inspiration to the channel wing concept came in 1925, when Custer had observed how the roof of a barn was lifted during a very strong gust of wind.".