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 ...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - It looks more like a flying saucer than an airplane, and soon the antique military aircraft known as the 'Flying Pancake' will be on display at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in ...
The push to achieve air superiority through innovation yielded some unusual designs during World War II, including the German Horten Ho 229 (a jet-powered, all-wing fighter), the British Hafner ...
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 ...
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The "Flying Pancake" fighter that looked like a UFO
During World War II, American engineers experimented with some of the most unusual aircraft concepts ever built, and few were stranger than the Vought V-173. Nicknamed the “Flying Pancake,” the ...
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 ...
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