Vought V-173 Flying Pancake

[jerome96114]

Why didn't they go in series with it ?

(Or did they?)

[DevilMaster]

@jerome96114 Because the existence of turbojets made them obsolete.

Although, I wonder how a turboprop version of this would perform...

[francois4640]

I don't know if this has already been said but this plane (prototype actually) is located now in Poitiers (France) in the Futuroscope resort. I got to discover it by chance in last September during a trip over there. Its nickname in french is "La crêpe dorée"

[francois4640]

@francois4640

"La crêpe volante" indeed

[granskare]

cool

[blkbrdsr71]

Wish someone would make an 4ch RC of this plane.

[CookiesAndGuns95]

"We have a 12 million man army and 3,000 nukes! Might as well give up!"

"Not so fast! We have a flying pancake!"

[gzupe567]

I worked for Vought they are rebuilding this plane for the Smithsonian. 

[drongoesgalore]

yo

[Phenixtri]

Its my life's dream to rebuild this thing :D both the prototype & the planned military version.

[cartmanrlsusall]

@Phenixtri there are similar planes flying right now.search for low aspect ratio planes there iare at least 2 homebuild kits for these planeslook for the arup and flying shoeheel planes ,im sure you will find it interesting

[Phenixtri]

@cartmanrlsusall will do thx for the info m8 :D

[sqeekses]

lucky devil who got to fly it! lol

[sqeekses]

im doing a project on this! lol

[trespire]

"Almos impossible to stall" That interesting.

[navneetsohanpal]

he is a penis plane.

[nealshireman]

what an odd plane!

[sweetsongman1]

did you all know charles lindburgh was the first to solo a transatlantic flight? his plane sits in the national air&space museum in the smithsonian in washington D.C.

[trespire]

@sweetsongman1 Yes we all know thank you. The plane is called the spirit of St' Louis and has a fule tank in place of a front window.

[cartmanrlsusall]

@sweetsongman1 feel better now dude?

[poosh117]

@F14Lolcat you look fag!

x)

[ObiTrev]

I saw this on TV Modern marvels. It had the potentail, but was sadly cancelled due to jet exploration. The thing would have had 6 cannons on it!

[jiggahippo]

@ObiTrev actaully they did make a jet verson but it failed some how, dont know how but it did.

[marcuspinson]

@jiggahippo im prety sure it um..... exploded

[jiggahippo]

@marcuspinson nope, researched it, it failed due to the current prob planes were faster so they figured, why bother.

[marcuspinson]

@jiggahippo ok but i know that one of them crashed

[LotsOMovies]

@jiggahippo A jet version? That's a strange idea, as the whole point of putting the engines at the wingtips is so that the propellers can rotate opposite to, and thereby actively cancel out, the wing tip vortices that all winged aircraft generate. You can basically imagine it as the propeller blades drag air from the top of the wing, around the end, and dump it under the wing to increase the air pressure down there and generate much greater lift.

[jiggahippo]

@LotsOMovies Hey, Im not in charge of it, I just researched a few sites that have some information. Im not a rocket scientist. But it was a cool ass plane in those days.

[DevilMaster]

@LotsOMovies Then what about a turboprop version?

[LotsOMovies]

@DevilMaster Sure, that could work. Same principle, just with a different way of developing power.

[Jenfucius]

I bet you this was inspired by UFO's.

[protheus123]

I bet this inspired the UFO's talkings.

[nealshireman]

@Jenfucius i bet ufo's were inspired by it

[TrickyGap]

Selected as the Lubbock Composite Squadron's (Civil Air Patrol) cadet video of the week. Thanks for posting this.

[jaglavaksoldier]

Good luck, cadets!!!

[UnclePutte]

What an extremely interesting design. I'm going to have to read up on this, thanks for the upload.

[doppelgangerforever6]

Air Hogs RC Havoc cyclone comes very close and fun to this.

[balongaboy]

srry i said army i meant navy

[ShadowedKnight]

They had this plane in Secret Weapons Over Normandy. Not my favorite craft, but fun to use.

[GodlessMartyr666]

very odd shape but ingenious, yet the nazi's built the Haunebu / Vril An honest to god electromagnetic propulsion drive flying saucer. I read somewhere they even stated they had travelled to mars in it, unfortunatly the crew could not return for the saucer had a mechanical failure of some sort and this trapped the nazi's on board somewhere in outer space. jokes eh, Bloody nazi saucer floating around somewhere in the void near mars...

[adrastea99]

lolwat

Idiot

[GodlessMartyr666]

get an education you stupid fuck.

[adrastea99]

Lets ignore for a second that the terms you are using were coined in pulp fiction

What were the designation numbers of these craft?

Who were the pilots?

Where did you read about them?

What medication are you taking?

[GodlessMartyr666]

Wernher von braun admitted it after he began work with the united states on the recovered V2 technology at new castle army air field... But that is beyond the point that electro-magnetic propulsion technology already exists and is in use ... Gauss is literally the science of using electro magnetic coils to propel a projectile at extremely high velocity in the same manner a firearm does , without the un necessary methods of combustion usually involved. Get educated before you talk.

[adrastea99]

Wernher von Braun never admitted there were aircraft powered by "Vril", that Germans went to Mars or electrostatic propulsion

Gauss is firing a projectile, yes, but you can't use it for the propulsion of a vehicle or control an aircraft in that way

[adrastea99]

There is one example of electric propulsion which could possibly work as you say, and that is ionic drive developed by Tesla

Two problems: The Germans did not have the power source for it (we still don't) and they did not have the computer power to control the stream

Telling me to get educated is fucking stupid considering your education comes from fiction books

[balongaboy]

i never got why it was used in that game it never even flew during the war and was never used by the army. the army wanted it made but by the time it was ready for prodution they didnt need it

[jrriojase]

Well, it was a game, they put HeP1087s, Daimler Benz C, Ju390s, Do 355 (that one did fly though) XP-55, XP-56 and other not so used planes. It was a lo of fiction in tat game. Fun fun fun.