Battelle has recently tested its carbon nanotube-base HeatCoat technology that it claims is lighter and less power hungry than conventional aircraft anti-icing systems. It also has no moving parts...

The Flying Pancake dates to World War II when the Chance Vought Division of the United Aircraft Corporation built and flew the airplane to test Charles H. Zimmerman’s theories about extremely low-aspect ratio wing design that allowed an aircraft to fly at very slow speeds.