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V-173 Flying Pancake
Special Hobby 1/48
Plastic model kit
Sealed bag
Number SH 48121

Besides conventional aircraft designs, unorthodox designs have always appeared. Among those designs were circular wings or saucer-wing aircraft.
First test flight was November 23rd, 1942.
The flight lasted 15 minutes and when landed the pilot complained about extreme heaviness and sluggishness of the controls and vibrations in cockpit.
The flight trials continued with other pilots, including famous Charles Lindbergh.
The airplane is now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution.
The test evaluations of the V-173 later informed the F5U-1 combat fighter designs.