This months aircraft is a unique transport glider from WWII. This aircraft caught my eye on the canceled aircraft facebook page, ref: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=981364570937692&id=100071924734346&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=NIE6aPTT9lZhRlHM

This glider seriously looks like many sketches from my high school / college years.

While rather unconventional it is very sleek and went against the Waco CG-13 that ultimately won the down select with the Army air core.

The XCG-16 was evolved from the lifting fuselage theories of Vincent Burnelli laid out in U.S. Patent No. 1,758,498,

A very good article on the -16 can be found at: https://www.cafsocal.com/back-to-the-future-with-the-xcg-16-bowlus-transport-glider/

Forum thread: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/general-airborne-transport-xcg-16-combat-glider.13844/

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Airborne_Transport_XCG-16

Cargo was setup side by side with leading edge mounted doors

Only one XCG-16 was produced and flown. It had good flight qualities however had other deficiencies that turned the vote to the Waco offering.

For such an odd WWII one off prototype there are a few good videos on YouTube about it:

Very surprising there are no hits on Outerzone for the XCG-16.

With the ruled surfaces it would be rather easy to build one of these out of Balsa or even foam board.

Massive thanks to the Cafsocal web site above a detailed pdf is available, see the quick link below, with the combined with modern cad software and even 3D printing getting an accurate RC version is quite workable.

And here is a lower rez verion for quick ref: