• Thumbnail for VTOL
    A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway. This classification can include...
    35 KB (4,199 words) - 20:07, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bayraktar VTOL
    Bayraktar VTOL is a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle system developed by Baykar Defense, and announced for the first time...
    3 KB (222 words) - 21:10, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of experimental aircraft
    Ducted fan VTOL Birdman Project 102 – Canadair CL-52 – jet engine testbed (converted Boeing B-47) Canadair CL-84 Dynavert – tilt-wing VTOL de Havilland...
    28 KB (3,028 words) - 15:06, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yakovlev Yak-141
    also known as the Yak-41, is a Soviet supersonic vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev. Intended as a replacement for the...
    19 KB (2,227 words) - 01:49, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harrier jump jet
    prospective capabilities and viability of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, which would eliminate the requirement for vulnerable runways by...
    51 KB (5,203 words) - 18:46, 7 September 2024
  • to produce modern CAA-certified VTOL autogyros for commercial use. They have a prototype under test, the Pegasus VTOL-Tech, which is to go into production...
    7 KB (836 words) - 20:55, 26 June 2024
  • The SQA eVTOL (otherwise known as Belin V) is a tactical reconnaissance UAV classified as a NATO class 1 mini tactical drone with less than 15kg MTOW....
    6 KB (506 words) - 02:53, 6 August 2024
  • they are assumed to have this capability. For more detail on subtypes of VTOL, see List of tiltrotor aircraft. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K...
    6 KB (686 words) - 16:59, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Takeoff
    Takeoff (section VTOL)
    runway. For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft (VTOL aircraft such as the Harrier and the Bell Boeing V22 Osprey), no runway is...
    11 KB (1,341 words) - 21:33, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for VTOL X-Plane
    The Vertical Take-Off and Landing Experimental Aircraft (VTOL X-Plane) program was an American research project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research...
    15 KB (1,685 words) - 20:41, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yakovlev Yak-38
    NATO reporting name: "Forger") was Soviet Naval Aviation's only operational VTOL strike fighter aircraft in addition to being its first operational carrier-based...
    12 KB (1,234 words) - 01:35, 8 September 2024
  • by ground effect. For fan- and jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, ground effect when hovering can cause suckdown and fountain lift...
    17 KB (2,099 words) - 22:17, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dornier Do 31
    Do 31 is an experimental, jet-propelled, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft that was designed and produced by West German aircraft manufacturer...
    19 KB (2,295 words) - 23:15, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bell XV-15
    The Bell XV-15 is an American tiltrotor VTOL aircraft. It was the second successful experimental tiltrotor aircraft and the first to demonstrate the concept's...
    17 KB (2,040 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Dynamics AD-150
    The AD-150 is a high-speed VTOL tilting ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle that is being developed by American Dynamics Flight Systems as a future competitor...
    4 KB (383 words) - 20:49, 17 August 2024
  • vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (VTOL), electrically propelled vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft (eVTOL), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
    48 KB (5,016 words) - 18:50, 2 May 2024
  • The VTOL Aircraft Phillicopter is a 1970s Australian light utility helicopter designed and built by VTOL Aircraft of Newcastle West, New South Wales. Duan...
    5 KB (438 words) - 16:31, 12 December 2020
  • EVTOL (category VTOL aircraft)
    An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is a variety of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft that uses electric power to hover...
    34 KB (3,541 words) - 02:04, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air taxi
    (STOL) or Vertical Takeoff and Landings (VTOL); electric VTOL aircraft are also prominent, known as eVTOLs. Another noteworthy term for the air taxi...
    14 KB (1,574 words) - 19:37, 10 September 2024
  • runway. For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft (VTOL aircraft such as the Harrier), no runway is needed. Takeoff is the opposite...
    19 KB (2,139 words) - 21:09, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Archer Aviation
    company headquartered in San Jose, California, which is developing eVTOL aircraft. Its eVTOL aircraft is designed to allow airline operators to transport people...
    17 KB (1,446 words) - 12:27, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bartini Beriev VVA-14
    battery of lift engines to give VTOL capability, and with fly-by-wire flight controls. The VVA-14M3 would see the VTOL vehicle fully equipped with armament...
    7 KB (697 words) - 00:20, 10 September 2024
  • aircraft project) Yak-36 "Freehand" (1963 - VTOL demonstration aircraft) Yak-43 (1983 - projected replacement for VTOL Yak-141 fighter) Yak-44 (1980s - carrier-capable...
    9 KB (933 words) - 22:15, 21 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Convair XFY Pogo
    warships. Lockheed and Convair were awarded contracts to build experimental VTOL fighters, with Convair producing the XFY-1, also known as the "Pogo." It...
    12 KB (1,373 words) - 19:21, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk
    1979. On September 8, 1980, he was killed in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38 VTOL fighter on the Minsk. The carrier was retired, and decommissioned on 30 June...
    12 KB (913 words) - 06:57, 27 August 2024
  • SkyDrive is a eVTOL company based in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. SkyDrive was founded in 2018. It was preceded by eventual acquirer Cartivator...
    4 KB (305 words) - 19:07, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dassault Mirage IIIV
    and landing (VTOL) prototype fighter aircraft of the mid-1960s developed and produced by Dassault Aviation. The Mirage IIIV was a VTOL derivative of...
    18 KB (2,150 words) - 00:08, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for DuPont Aerospace DP-1
    The DuPont Aerospace DP-1 was a subscale prototype for a fixed-wing VSTOL transport aircraft, intended to take off and land like a helicopter and fly like...
    4 KB (296 words) - 21:28, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ryan XV-5 Vertifan
    Landing (VTOL). The 62.5 in (1.59 m) diameter lift fan in each wing had a hinged cover on the upper wing surface which was opened for VTOL. The 36 in...
    13 KB (1,501 words) - 00:06, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar-powered aircraft
    Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer (MAGGIE) - proposed solar VTOL aircraft to fly in the atmosphere of mars 2023 Chinese balloon incident Aircraft...
    6 KB (497 words) - 02:43, 21 August 2024