num_pages: 32
description: The Flying Pancake Flying Flapjack Flying Saucer and Zimmer's Skimmer were all names used to describe Charles H. Zimmerman's unorthodox V-173 and XF5U-1 aircraft. Two other the world's fastest and slowest-flying airplane and the world's first vertical takeoff and landing airplane might have been used to describe the XF5U1 that was built but never flown. Zimmerman's brainchild was designed to do just that but was never given the chance.
language: English
title: Chance Vought V-173 & XF5U-1 Flying Pancakes
publisher: Ginter Books