Wikipedia: History of VTOL

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Standing for vertical take-off and landing, it refers to this capability in aircraft.

Standing for vertical take-off and landing, it refers to this capability in aircraft.

Currently there is only one VTOL capable aircraft in operation:
* [Hawker Harrier]? Jump Jet

In practice the Harrier is actually a STOVL aircraft.

The Americas use a copy of the Harrier. but have made a number of unsuccessful attempts of their own.
* XV-15? - research craft at NASA
* [Boeing V-22A Osprey]?

	Revision 4 . . (edit) December 19, 2001 11:25 pm by Verloren [Added STOVL reference]
	Revision 3 . . (edit) December 4, 2001 6:22 am by TwoOneTwo
	Revision 2 . . December 4, 2001 6:07 am by (logged).192.137.xxx [added examples]
	Revision 1 . . November 25, 2001 4:30 pm by (logged).83.130.xxx *[vertical take-off and landing.]**