The Vought V-173 Flying Pancake

[FunInAviation]

Interesting Bird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P53msJEqtq8

The Museum's description:
The Vought V-173 was a proof-of-concept test article for the development of a U.S. Navy shipboard fighter (the XF5U) that would be able to operate at low takeoff and landing speeds while still being capable of high-speed flight for combat operation.

[Downs]

Props as big as a V-22 lol

[skier]

low aspect ratio aerodynamics gets pretty interesting pretty quickly. For starters, stall angle of attack increases as aspect ratio decreases.