V/STOL

American  

[vee-stawl] / ˈviˌstɔl /

Aeronautics.

1. vertical and short takeoff and landing.

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Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

He sits on the floor in the hallway of his communal apartment, in a dark and hopeless mood—he appears doomed to the repeated frustrations of an author who can only “pisat’ v stol,” as the Russian saying goes, “to write for the desk,” or toil over stories that won’t end up anywhere but a desk drawer.

From The New Yorker

Writers who would not adjust to the state’s ideological constraints were forced to write v stol—“into the desk,” not for publication.

From The New Yorker

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