V/STOL
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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
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
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
A German V/STOL, the B�lkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly by having two main engines that are tiltable and supplementing their thrust with two vertical-lift engines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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