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A vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft is an airplane able to take off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are a subset of V/STOL craft that do not require runways at all. Generally, a V/STOL aircraft needs to be able to hover. Helicopters are not considered under the V/STOL…
History, Lists of V/STOL aircraft & VTOL
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| cyclogyros | instance of | This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors | 0.80 | text |
| gyrodynes.Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes as well | instance of | This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors | 0.80 | text |
| such as CTOL | instance of | This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors | 0.80 | text |
| the Bell XV-15 research craft | instance of | was cancelled even as the aircraft were being built.NASA has flown other VTOL craft | 0.80 | text |
| the Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 of the mid-1940s | instance of | No production contracts resulted.Although tiltrotors | 0.80 | text |
| the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial | instance of | No production contracts resulted.Although tiltrotors | 0.80 | text |
| V/STOL | related to External links | V/STOL Wheel | 0.60 | section |
| V/STOL | related to External links | Misfortune Archived | 0.60 | section |
| V/STOL | related to External links | Wayback Machine V/STOL Wheel | 0.60 | section |
| V/STOL | related to External links | Wayback Machine | 0.60 | section |
| V/STOL | related to External links | Timeline | 0.60 | section |
| V/STOL | related to External links | Archived | 0.60 | section |
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