Pass on the Family Pride with this Astonishing and Captivating Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack model plane

Sparing no major or minor detail, Warplanes's craftsmen have produced a perfected Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack model. Specific markings like logos, squadron name, and distinct design with its paint schemes are elaborately done to give you only the finest. This scale replica will surely appeal to any aviation aficionado, veterans and historians, adults and kids alike. Place this Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack model plane on your desk with its steel support rod and wooden-base stand that comes with it. For an added flying effect, you can also avail of our pitch wall mount accessory allowing you to display your model plane hanging on the ceiling or on the wall for much appreciation.

Skillfully carved from the finest grade of wood, the Vought Flying Flapjack XF5U model plane is worked to a perfect scale copy of the Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack. The design of the wing, the tail and the body of this art piece are carefully carved, mirrored from the actual Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack. To preserve its keen design, a final coat of clear gloss is applied to the entire model. To completely ensure that we bring you nothing but the best, our model planes go through various quality control before being placed in its box.

The brainchild of Charles H. Zimmerman, the F5U was intended to perform well as a fighter plane while being able to remain in flight at extremely low airspeed, making it easier to operate from carriers. The F5U's unusual appearance owed to a very low aspect ratio wing without a fuselage, which resulted in something looking like a flying saucer. This shape, combined with powerful engines driving large propellers, could plow through the air at low speed (40 mph!), since the whole airframe is immersed in the prop wash.

The XF5U Flying Pancake was manufactured by Vought. It was a fighter aircraft and the brainchild of Charles Zimmerman during World War II. Its maiden flight was on the 23rd of November 1942 and its production was cancelled on the 17th of March 1947.

The XF5U was the most unusual aircraft designed for the U. S. Navy. It consists of a flat, somewhat disk- shaped body with a very low aspect ratio wing without fuselage that looks like a flying saucer. The Xf5U has two 1,600hp Pratt and Whitney R-2000 radial engines. Its configuration was designed to have a low aspect ratio aircraft that will have a low takeoff and landing speed and high top speed. It can accommodate only one, the pilot; it has a length of 28 ft 7 in; wingspan of 32 ft 6 in; height of 14 ft 9 in; empty weight of 13 107 lb, loaded weight of 16,722 lb. and max takeoff weight of 18,772 lb. It has a maximum speed of 425 mph; range of 1,064 miles; rate of climb 718 ft per minute; and service ceiling of 34,492 ft. It has 6 x .50 machine guns or 4 x 20 mm machine guns or 2 x 1000 lb bombs.

Charles Lindbergh has successfully flown the first flight of the V-173 and he was surprised that it was easy to handle. The aircraft's main problem was its gearbox which produces unacceptable amounts of vibration. Even the design was really promising. The U.S. Navy came to a point where they had to switch from propeller driven planes to jet propelled planes.