The Vought V-173 “Flying Pancake” was a groundbreaking experimental aircraft with an all-wing design and propellers on the ...

The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake": A Naval Aircraft Design Like No Other. Most aircraft, from commercial airliners like the Boeing 737 to general aviation staples like the Cessna 172 to modern ...

The V-173 prototype would ultimately weigh just over 3,000 pounds fully loaded, with a massive 427 square feet of wing area. By comparison, a 3,100-pound Cessna 182T has only 174 square feet of ...

The experimental Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake," which once flew with pilot Charles Lindbergh at the controls, arrived at the Frontiers of Flight Museum by truck Tuesday morning.

The V-173 was placed in storage in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Navy ordered the surviving XF5U-1s destroyed sometime after January 1949. The Pancake was killed by the jet engine.

The Flying Pancake is the name given to a historic military aircraft that was designed as a flat disc. ... The Vought V-173 aircraft got its nickname from its flat disc-shape design.

Flying Pancake: Why the U.S. Navy Turned Down the Vought V-173 What You Need to Know: The Vought V-173, or “Flying Pancake,” defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape.

The newly-restored Flying Pancake, or V-173, has a new home in North Texas for the next decade. The aircraft, recently restored by Grand Prairie's Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation, will spend ...

The "Flying Pancake" pictured in the full scale wind tunnel. (Image credit: NASA.) In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a view of the Vought-Sikorsky V-173 airplane mounted in the ...

The V-173 Pancake Prototype Charles H. Zimmerman dreamt of novel aircraft designs, including those with flat circular bodies that acted as the lifting surface and would be capable of VSTOL ...

Seventy years later, a group of Flying Pancake aficionados in Texas set out to restore the V-173 to its original lustre. See the gallery below for more pictures of the original Flying Pancake and ...

What You Need to Know: The Vought V-173, or “Flying Pancake,” defied traditional aircraft design with its flat, flying-wing shape. Invented in the 1930s by Charles Zimmerman, ...