Chance-Vought V-173 Flying Flapjack by SmarmyOtter

Cinema 4D • Transportation • posted on May 06, 2004

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Description

This disk-shaped airplane from the Fifties was ahead of it's time: STOL, stable at high speed, etc. But it took so long to solve technical problems that by the time it reached production, jets had arrived!

Comments (7)

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RG19

8:27PM | Thu, 06 May 2004

Super modelling, seems familiar from a certain German aircraft of WWII featured in Indiana Jones. The "flying wing" made a come back in the stealth bomber program, so maybe...:)

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madmaxh

9:46PM | Thu, 06 May 2004

Hehe...your parents' tax dollars at work. :D Actually, we've had jets since 1945 -- British Gloster Meteors were used against German V1 Buzz Bombs towards the end of the war. This is still an interesting oddity of the Atomic Age. Nicely done! -- RG19 might be referring to the "Vril" craft reportedly seen by allied pilots during the Battle of Britain.

DanMill

1:07AM | Fri, 07 May 2004

Yeah very cool. Check out a web site called http://www.luft46.com It's got lost of cool 3d models with this theme.

SmarmyOtter

9:53PM | Fri, 07 May 2004

Thanks everyone! Check out the Chance-Vought web site (historical section). They have lots of downloadable plans/projections for scores of classic aircraft (like their deadly gullwing Corsair, or F-8 Crusader, Kingfisher, etc.). The V-173 "Flapjack" was only a test model. The two production fighters (designated XF5U-1) were both destroyed (it took some work too!). The remains of the original test model were mothballed by the Smithsonian for years. Now Vought retirees are in the process of restoring it. One of the retirees e-mailed me photos of the V-173 in restoration process.

vkoontz

10:58PM | Fri, 07 May 2004

I'd also like to see the "Zimmer Skimmer" restored. the Smithsonian did an excellent restoration of the Enola Gay.

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sackrat

7:09PM | Sat, 08 May 2004

Nice render. You know, technology being what it was at the time,.......you gotta wonder,...there wasn't one person sitting around the design commitee table that said "Nahhhh, it'll never fly". They spent a lot of cash on this thing.

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