- 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 can also
support tiltrotor aircraft (such as the MV-22 Osprey) and
VSTOL fixed-wing
aircraft (such as the AV-8
Harrier and the F-35B
Lightning II)...
- (1967-2006) - (
VSTOL fighter)
Harrier jump jet - (1967-limited) - (
VSTOL fighter)
British Aerospace Sea
Harrier - (1978-2016) - (
VSTOL fighter) British...
- The
VSTOL Support Ship (VSS) was a
proposed light aircraft carrier design for the
United States Navy in the late 1970s that
would be
smaller and less...
- anti-submarine and one
airborne early warning helicopters, as well as
carrying VSTOL fighters to stop
Soviet long-range
aircraft (like the
Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear")...
- carriers,
which do not have full-length
flight deck and
could only
launch VSTOL aircraft. The
Soviet Union's
classification for the
class was as a heavy...
- Name Type
Manufacturer Version Branches Quantity Notes Picture VSTOL/VTOL AV-8B
Harrier II
Close air
support Trainer Major components:
Boeing & BAE Systems...
-
before the
Domodedovo Air Show in 1967
General information Type
Experimental VSTOL aircraft National origin Soviet Union Manufacturer OKB
Yakovlev Number built...
- (strategic bomber), 1959
Cavalier MD 610 –
VSTOL concept, 1959 MD 410 Spirale, 1960
Balzac V, 1962
VSTOL Mirage IIIV, (1965–1966)
Atlantique (ATL 1,...
- Sqn,
which flew Lightnings, and
later 3 and 4,
which flew the
distinctive VSTOL Harrier. They were
supported by 18
Squadron operating Chinook Helicopters...
