Abstract
This chapter discusses about the rapidly increasing interest in the United States in VTOL and STOL aircraft, that is aircraft capable of performing either vertical or short take-off and landing. The chapter presents all those VTOL aircraft, falling in between that are propelled by rotors, propellers, ducted fans, or turbojets. STOL aircraft include only those in which all or most of the power available is used for producing high lift. For example, the jet flap but will not cover boundary-layer control applications that make use of only a small portion of the power available. A significant feature of VTOL–STOL research programs undertaken recently in the United States has been the use of flying test-bed aircraft that are simple and relatively inexpensive research machines.
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