Flying Flapjack

[Nik]

Slightly ATL: Re: Flying Flapjack

Is there any plausible way such STOL could have been available for 'Battle of Atlantic' instead of those disposable catapulted hurricanes & spitfires ?

STOL might have 'landed back on a hatch-cover'...

Uh, the comments from U-boat skippers and Condor pilots would be unprintable...

 

[Deleted member 2278]

Some Zimmerman-authored, Pancake-related patents, including a prone pilot position and an alternate, diagonal engine/shaft arrangement:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2481379A/en?oq=US2481379Ahttps://patents.google.com/patent/US2411770A/en?oq=US2411770Ahttps://patents.google.com/patent/US2452281A/en?oq=US2452281A

 

[hesham]

From Flying 1947-7.

 

[dannydale]

Why am I suddenly imagining a modernized tiltrotor version of this thing?

 

[Moose]

The return of the Flapjack?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1909587194936803626

View: https://x.com/BAESystemsInc/status/1909587194936803626?t=3nenvp6LUR8zRbVeC7wpIw&s=19