Local pilot and inventor Marvin Joy stands next to his experimental wingless plane that he called the “pumpkin seed.” The plane was flown twice at Pearson Field, in perhaps the first test of a lifting ...

The “Flying Flapjack” or Vought XF5U program was a U.S. Navy experimental aircraft that had some odd design features. The plane was designed by Charles H. Zimmerman just prior to World War II.

That design ethos created an aircraft that was as flat as it was roundish in shape. The result was what many thought looked like a giant flapjack or pancake flying through the sky - hence its quirky ...

The newly-restored Flying Pancake, or V-173, has a new home in North Texas for the next decade. The aircraft, recently restored by Grand Prairie's Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation, will spend the ...