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Vought V 173 “Flying Flapjack”
In the efflorescence of aircraft design in the 20th century, many experimenters designed aircraft with a round, disc-shaped, low-aspect-ratio wing planform. Some were flight tested and showed some promise, but, ultimately, this branch of “flying saucer” shaped aircraft did not prevail. Perhaps the most famous was the Vought V 173 “Flying Flapjack,” a Charles H. Zimmerman design. As noted on Wikipedia, Zimmerman conducted trials at NASA Langley (then the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory) in 1935...
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