Vought V 173 Flying Pancake by Richardphotos

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 28, 2013

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this plane was designed in 1941 as one that could take off in a short distance and as well land the same way. the military commissioned Vought to make one that could carry a crew I distaste war and all the loss of life's as well the wounded veterans, children with no parents. I was a "war baby", but knew nothing of the horrors of WWII until I was older. I grew up watching the military planes/jets going to Douglas Aircraft for service and loved the sound of the huge horsepower engines. to this day, I still love hearing all of the old Air Force vintage planes, as well the modern jets.

Comments (42)

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flavia49

6:55PM | Thu, 28 March 2013

fantastic image

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brycek

6:58PM | Thu, 28 March 2013

Awesome capture!!

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danapommet

7:20PM | Thu, 28 March 2013

I remember this and a fantastic photo and share!

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jocko500

9:11PM | Thu, 28 March 2013

wow that a old one. cool looking

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starship64

11:39PM | Thu, 28 March 2013

Beautiful plane. I wasn't aware that any of them had been preserved.

whaleman

2:37AM | Fri, 29 March 2013

I am in the same boat, when Emperor Hirohito publicly announced his surrender of Japan, I was one year old on that same day. I too love the sounds of those old engines and would have loved to see this baby fly!

bebert

12:55PM | Fri, 29 March 2013

hard to believe that this thing flies :))) very nice capture

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weesel

8:14PM | Fri, 29 March 2013

Just checked to see how far this idea went: seems you found The Pancake. Only one was built. Not sure what role they envisioned for a top speed of 138 mph. An interesting weirdo.

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knupps

5:51AM | Sat, 30 March 2013

That looks great. Saw a program of this aircraft on Discovery a few mounths ago.

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mgtcs

2:42AM | Sun, 31 March 2013

Unique indeed Richard, brilliant capture!

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tigertim

6:54PM | Wed, 03 April 2013

Awesome photo Richard.. great to it, other than in books!. reminds me of the flying sub from Voyage to the bottom of the sea.. maybe this is where they got their inspiration!

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