1911 Vought Disc-form aircraft
An early effort at disc-shaped design, the 'umbrella plane' of inventor Chance Vought
Whatever this design's merits may be, they lie more in the quantity of fabric and the quality of the joinery than in any sound application of aerodynamic principles.
The aircraft, as far as we know, went nowhere; but Vought himself went on to produce a famous line of aircraft in the