High speed is not everything in aviation. Sometimes, the need is for something other than having an aircraft that travels ...

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 ...

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 the middle of WWII, engineer Charles Zimmerman built one of the strangest aircraft ever to take flight - the Vought V-173 “Flying Pancake.” With its flat, circular wing and twin massive propellers, ...