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Take Off With This Cable Age Classic Documentary On The Flying Pancakes! They Revolutionized The Theory Of Flight With Their Ability To Take Off Vertically And Move In Any Direction. During World War II, It Was Hoped That "The Zimmer Skimmer" Would Be The Weapon To Hunt Down Japan's Deadly Kamikazes At Sea; And Ten Years Later, Both The Hiller Flying Platform, A Single-Rotor Aircraft, Demonstrated That A Single Pilot Could Change Its Direction Merely By Shifting His Weight, And The Avrocar, Pure In Disc Shape And Design, Demonstrated The Ability To Hover Across Any Terrain! Soar High With Another Hour Of Historical Aviation Adventure, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Color, 1991, 47 Minutes.) #FlyingPancakes #FlyingPlatforms #FlyingDiscs #VoughtV-173 #FlyingPancake #ZimmerSkimmer #Vought XF5U #FlyingFlapjack #HillerVZ-1Pawnee #HillerHO-1Pawnee #Direct-LiftRotorAircraft #AvroCanadaVZ-9Avrocar #Avrocar#VTOL #StrangePlanes #PropsAndJets #GreatPlanes #Wings #ExperimentalAircraft #ExperimentalPlanes #XPlanes #MilitaryAviation #MilitaryAviationHistory #HistoryOfMilitaryAviation #Aviation #AviationHistory #HistoryOfAviation #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
The Vought V-173, nicknamed "The Flying Pancake" and "The Zimmer Skimmer", is an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II. Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body (like a pancake, hence the nickname) serving as the lifting surface. Two piston engines buried in the body drove propellers located on the leading edge, at the wingtips. It first flew on November 23, 1942, and was retired on March 15, 1947 after a single example was built; however, it was developed into The Vought XF5U, nicknamed "The Flying Flapjack", another experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman for Vought during World War II. This unorthodox design consisted of a flat, somewhat disc-shaped body (resembling a flying flapjack/pancake, hence its nickname) serving as the lifting surface. Two piston engines buried in the body drove propellers located on the leading edge, at the wingtips. The project was cancelled on March 17, 1947 after two were built.
The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) is a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a flying platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control. The platform was developed starting in 1953 under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract to Hiller Aircraft, and flew successfully beginning in 1955. It first flew in 1955, and a total of six were built.
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coanda effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft. In the air, it would have resembled a flying saucer. Originally designed as a fighter-like aircraft capable of very high speeds and altitudes, the project was repeatedly scaled back over time and the U.S. Air Force eventually abandoned it. Development was then taken up by the U.S. Army for a tactical combat aircraft requirement, a sort of high-performance helicopter. In flight testing, the Avrocar proved to have unresolved thrust and stability problems that limited it to a degraded, low-performance flight envelope; subsequently, the project was cancelled in September 1961. Through the history of the program, the project was referred to by different names. Avro referred to the efforts as Project Y, with individual vehicles known as Spade and Omega. Project Y-2 was later funded by the U.S. Air Force, who referred to it as WS-606A, Project 1794 and Project Silver Bug. When the U.S. Army joined the efforts it took on its final name "Avrocar", and the designation "VZ-9", part of the U.S. Army's VTOL projects in the VZ series. It first flew in on November 12, 1959. It was retired in 1961 after a total of two were built.
Take Off With This Cable Age Classic Documentary On The Flying Pancakes! They Revolutionized The Theory Of Flight With Their Ability To Take Off Vertically And Move In Any Direction. During World War II, It Was Hoped That "The Zimmer Skimmer" Would Be The Weapon To Hunt Down Japan's Deadly Kamikazes At Sea; And Ten Years Later, Both The Hiller Flying Platform, A Single-Rotor Aircraft, Demonstrated That A Single Pilot Could Change Its Direction Merely By Shifting His Weight, And The Avrocar, Pure In Disc Shape And Design, Demonstrated The Ability To Hover Across Any Terrain! Soar High With Another Hour Of Historical Aviation Adventure, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! (Color, 1991, 47 Minutes.) #FlyingPancakes #FlyingPlatforms #FlyingDiscs #VoughtV-173 #FlyingPancake #ZimmerSkimmer #Vought XF5U #FlyingFlapjack #HillerVZ-1Pawnee #HillerHO-1Pawnee #Direct-LiftRotorAircraft #AvroCanadaVZ-9Avrocar #Avrocar#VTOL #StrangePlanes #PropsAndJets #GreatPlanes #Wings #ExperimentalAircraft #ExperimentalPlanes #XPlanes #MilitaryAviation #MilitaryAviationHistory #HistoryOfMilitaryAviation #Aviation #AviationHistory #HistoryOfAviation #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
The Vought V-173, nicknamed "The Flying Pancake" and "The Zimmer Skimmer", is an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II. Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body (like a pancake, hence the nickname) serving as the lifting surface. Two piston engines buried in the body drove propellers located on the leading edge, at the wingtips. It first flew on November 23, 1942, and was retired on March 15, 1947 after a single example was built; however, it was developed into The Vought XF5U, nicknamed "The Flying Flapjack", another experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman for Vought during World War II. This unorthodox design consisted of a flat, somewhat disc-shaped body (resembling a flying flapjack/pancake, hence its nickname) serving as the lifting surface. Two piston engines buried in the body drove propellers located on the leading edge, at the wingtips. The project was cancelled on March 17, 1947 after two were built.
The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) is a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a flying platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control. The platform was developed starting in 1953 under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) contract to Hiller Aircraft, and flew successfully beginning in 1955. It first flew in 1955, and a total of six were built.
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coanda effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out of the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft. In the air, it would have resembled a flying saucer. Originally designed as a fighter-like aircraft capable of very high speeds and altitudes, the project was repeatedly scaled back over time and the U.S. Air Force eventually abandoned it. Development was then taken up by the U.S. Army for a tactical combat aircraft requirement, a sort of high-performance helicopter. In flight testing, the Avrocar proved to have unresolved thrust and stability problems that limited it to a degraded, low-performance flight envelope; subsequently, the project was cancelled in September 1961. Through the history of the program, the project was referred to by different names. Avro referred to the efforts as Project Y, with individual vehicles known as Spade and Omega. Project Y-2 was later funded by the U.S. Air Force, who referred to it as WS-606A, Project 1794 and Project Silver Bug. When the U.S. Army joined the efforts it took on its final name "Avrocar", and the designation "VZ-9", part of the U.S. Army's VTOL projects in the VZ series. It first flew in on November 12, 1959. It was retired in 1961 after a total of two were built.