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vertical and/or short take-off and landing
Also known as VSTOL, vertical or short takeoff/vertical or short landing, vertical or short takeoff and landing, V/STOL
thumb|right|Spanish Navy AV-8B Harrier II at the [[RIAT 2023]] thumb|right|A U.S. Marine Corps Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey|MV-22 Osprey prepares to land aboard a ship. 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 classification as the classification is only used for aeroplanes, aircraft that achieve
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- VTOL
- History
- Props, proprotors, and advanced rotorcraft
- Jet lift
- Tail-sitters
- Conventional design
- V/STOL
- Convertiplanes and gyrodynes
- Rockets
- Lists of V/STOL aircraft
- Vectored thrust
- Tilt-jet
- Tilt-rotor
- Tilt-wing
- Separate thrust and lift
- Supersonic
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|Spanish Navy AV-8B Harrier II at the [[RIAT 2023]] thumb|right|A U.S. Marine Corps Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey|MV-22 Osprey prepares to land aboard a ship. 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 classification as the classification is only used for aeroplanes, aircraft that achieve lift in forward flight by planing the air, thereby achieving speed and fuel efficiency that is typically greater than the capability of helicopters.
The main advantage of V/STOL aircraft is in their military performance, such as closer basing to the enemy, which reduces response time and tanker support requirements. In the case of the Falklands War, it also permitted high-performance fighter air cover and ground attack without a large aircraft carrier equipped with aircraft catapult. V/STOL was developed to allow fast jets to be operated from clearings in forests, from very short runways, and from small aircraft carriers that would previously only have been able to carry helicopters.