Jack Brouse was all smiles Tuesday as the Vought V-173 arrived at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. Brouse helped with the restoration of the experimental plane, which paved the way for stealth aircraft ...

With its flat, disc-shaped design and spinning propellers, the Vought V-173 looked more like a UFO than a fighter jet. Nicknamed the “Flying Pancake,” this experimental all-wing aircraft was developed ...

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 ...

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, the V-173 was ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a view of the Vought-Sikorsky V-173 airplane mounted in the Full Scale Wind Tunnel on Nov. 28, 1941. This image shows the prototype "Zimmer Skimmer ...

In 1939, aerodynamicist Charles Zimmerman, who had joined Chance Vought two years earlier, built a two-foot-long, electric-powered model, the V-172 (above), to test his theory of a flying disk. His ...

That design ethos created an aircraft that was as flat as it was roundish in shape. The result was what many thought looked like a giant flapjack or pancake flying through the sky - hence its quirky ...

It’s been just over a century and change since the first airplane flight. And an amazing amount of innovation has happened to aviation since then. Along with quite a bit of weird experiments, that ...

Vought V-173 prototype’s 427 square feet of wing area gave it the capability of taking off nearly vertically with typical wind over a ship’s deck.