On 17 March 1947, the US Navy contract for development of a plane with a flat circular body is terminated.
The plane had the military designation XF-5U-1 and was based on the lighter Chance Vought V-173 prototype (also known as the Zimmerman “Flying Pancake”, the “Flying Pancake” and the “Navy Flounder”) which had been flown for the first time on 1942.1123.
Web Resources
{text}
Book References
For discussion of the Flying Flapjack and/or Flying Pancake see the following:
Year |
Discussion by:
|
No. of Pages |
Baker, Alan in his “Destination Earth” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Ball, Brian in his “A Young Person’s Guide to UFOs” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 74 (in Chapter 8) of the Dragon paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Berliner, Don in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 622 (in Section 15) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
1 |
|
Berlitz, Charles and Moore, Bill in their “The Roswell Incident“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 136 (in Chapter 8) of the Granada hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Granada paperback edition). |
1 |
|
Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Flying Saucerers : A social history of UFOlogy” (2007) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Alternative Albion softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 30 (in Chapter 4) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
1 |
|
Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 846, 856 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 503, 510 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: |
2 |
|
Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Cowles and UPI (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers : Twenty-One Years of UFOs” (1968) at page 131. |
1 |
|
Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 213 (in Chapter 11) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Garrett, Richard in his “Aliens From Outer Space” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 14 (in Chapter 1) of the Piccolo paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 164 (in Chapter 7) of the Hutchinson hardback edition. |
1 |
|
Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 2) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Harbinson, W A in “The Age of the UFO” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 112-113 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The UFO goes to war”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained”, Volume 3, pages 748-749. |
2 |
|
Harbinson, W A in “UFOs: Where Do They Come From?” (1984) (edited by Peter Brookesmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 16-17 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The UFO goes to war”) of the Black Cat hardback edition. The relevant chapter is an article reprinted from the weekly partwork “The Unexplained” , Volume 3, pages 748-749. |
2 |
|
Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at pages 116-118, 124 (in Chapter 7) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
4 |
|
Harbinson, W A in his “Inception : Projekt Saucer Book 1” (1991) at page x (in the Author’s Note) of the Dell paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 43, 60 (in Chapter 2) of the Indiana hardback edition, at pages 37, 53 of the Signet paperback edition. |
2 |
|
Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22, 24 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
2 |
|
Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” (1953) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 43 of the Henry Holt hardback edition, pages 48 of the Tandem paperback edition (in Chapter 3). |
1 |
|
Marvels and Mysteries (Editors Of) in “Marvels and Mysteries: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 of the Parrallel softcover edition. |
2 |
|
Matthews, Tim in “The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 325-326 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the New American Library softcover edition, at page 319 of the pdf edition (with the same page numbering in the Microsoft Word edition). |
2 |
|
Matthews, Tim in “The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters” (2001) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 392 (in an entry entitled “Man-made UFOs”) of the Robinson softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Matthews, Tim in his “UFO Revelation” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 35-36 (in Chapter 1), 41 (in Chapter 2), 60 (in Chapter 4), 70-71 (in Chapter 6) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
6 |
|
Michaels, Susan in her “Sightings: UFOs” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Flying Saucers are Real”) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 19 (in Part 1, Chapter 1) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, page 17 of the Pyramid paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Nesheim, Eric and Nesheim, Leif in their “Saucer Attack! : Pop Culture in the Golden Age of Flying Saucers” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 18, 52-53, 111 of the General Publishing softcover edition. |
4 |
|
Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (Chapter 2, “The Age of Confusion Begins” – in a section entitled “The Army Air Force Becomes Involved”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, page 14 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Randle, Kevin D and Schmitt, Donald R in their “UFO Crash at Roswell“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 17 (in Part 1) of the Avon paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 16 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 18 (in Chapter 1) of the Avon softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Randle, Kevin in his “The Roswell Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 121 (in an entry entitled “Flying Flapjack”) of the Quill softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22 (in Chapter 2), 77 (in Chapter 6) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 39, 108 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 35, 105 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 22, 77 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 15, 56 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available online at: http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/Rufo.htm |
2 |
|
Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 109 (in an entry entitled “Flying Pancake”), 186 (in an entry entitled “Man-Made Flying Saucers”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
2 |
|
Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-70 (in Chapter 6), 98-99 (in Chapter 9) of the Henry Holt hardback edition. |
5 |
|
Stemman, Roy in his “Mysteries of the Universe: Great Mysteries” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 144 (in Chapter 7) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
1 |
|
Sutherly, Curt in his “UFO Mysteries: A Reporter Seeks the Truth” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 4 (in Chapter 1) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
1 |
|
Swartz, Tim in his “Evil Agenda of the Secret Government: Exposing Project Paper Clip and the Underground UFO Bases of Hitler’s Elite Scientific Corps” (1999) at page 75 (in Chapter 5) of the Global Communications softcover edition. |
1 |
|
United Press International and Cowles Communications Inc (the editors of ) in “Flying Saucers: A Look Special” (1967) at page 52. |
1 |
|
Vallee, Jacques and Vallee, Janine in their “Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 217 (in Chapter 10) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition, at page 188 of the Tandem paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40, 41-42 (in Chapter 2) of the AUP softcover edition. |
4 |
|
Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-42, 51 (in Chapter 2) of the Zebra paperback edition. |
5 |
|
Wilson, Clifford in his “The Alien Agenda” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Wilson, Clifford in his “UFOs and Their Mission Impossible” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 33 (in Chapter 4) of the Signet paperback edition. |
1 |
|
Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 132 (in Chapter 7) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition. |
1 |
Other Material