Real and unreal circular wing aircraft

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Flying saucers have always fascinated science fiction authors and imaginative historians. But the technology of all-wing aircraft have been tested during several decades. And FS9 aircraft designers have been quite creative as well.

The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" was an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" United States Navy fighter aircraft program during World War II.




Both the V-173 and the XF5U featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of flat, somewhat disk-shaped bodies serving as the lifting surface.




Mike Stone's GFSA GEoBat is a modern version of such circular wing planes.




Unreal Aviation did this Jetson IV Flying Saucer. It's an imaginary saucer-shaped fan-lift two-seat transport inspired by The Jetsons TV cartoon series. I let it taking off like a helicopter.



They all are flying well as AI.


BTW, the famous Roswell UFO incident in 1947 inspired me for this 'what if' near Corona, NM ...



Bernard

[nmlw]

Nice collection of allwing aircraft Bernard. I like your Roswell incident depiction as well.

[Defender]

Both entertaining and informative yet again Bernard. Look forward to more.

Bill

[Al]

I enjoy these little recreations of unusual places or things as well. Look forward to the next one.