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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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