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STOL

STOL is an acronym for Short Take-Off and Landing, used in the aircraft industry to describe airplanes with excellent short-field performance. Famous STOL aircraft include the Fieslier Fi 156[?], de Haviland Beaver[?], PZL Wilga and Westland Lysander. A STOLPORT is an airport designed with STOL operations in mind, normally having a short single runway. The vertiport could gain support in the emerging era of tilt-rotors, but it may find the low environmental "footprint" traditionally achieved by STOLPORTs hard to match.

See also

  • VTOL - Vertical Take-Off and Landing
  • STOVL - Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing



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