VTOL
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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 a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes.
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See also
- Circular wing
- List of Nikola Tesla patents
- List of VTOL aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas DC-X
- Mono tiltrotor
- Peter Bielkowicz
- Proprotor
- PTOL
- Quad (rocket)
- Reusable Vehicle Testing project of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA
- Rotor wing
- Thrust reversal
- Thrust vectoring
- Vertical Flight Society
- Tiltrotor
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