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V/STOL

American  
[vee-stawl] / ˈviˌstɔl /
Aeronautics.
  1. vertical and short takeoff and landing.


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It’s what’s known as a V/STOL aircraft, capable of vertical/short takeoffs and landings.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2018

Experimental craft ranged from Ling-Temco-Vought's V/STOL XC-142 to Martin Marietta's Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit.

From Time Magazine Archive

By his calculations, as early as 1975 V/STOL planes could grab half the commercial travel over such short hops as San Francisco to Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane.

From Time Magazine Archive

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