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 ...

Results of the wind tunnel testing led to building a prototype to test the concept, and would be designated the V-173 and took on the names "Zimmer Skimmer", "Flying Pancake" and "Flying Flapjack".

Few remember the Vought A-7 Corsair II. The Navy attack jet simply lacked the cultural presence to make any sort of staying ...

Despite its Oldsmobile namesake, from 1953 to 1957, the Vought F7U Cutlass was an unconventionally designed jet known for its mechanical shortcomings.

Vought’s design entered flight testing in 1965, with impressive results. The new jet, which would become the A-7, was able to perform rapid aileron rolls, even with a massive, six-ton payload of ...

The jet-powered Kingfisher II would be Vought's first new-start since the A-7 Corsair in the 1960s. Performance projections are based on an above-fuselage-mounted 4,100lb-thrust (18kN) Pratt ...