Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) competitions, including STOL Drag racing, have grown in popularity, attracting both participants and spectators. Both STOL Drag and the National STOL Series prioritize ...

The article features a 1958 Helio H-391B Courier as "Today's Top Pick," highlighting its exceptional Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) capabilities. The Helio Courier was painstakingly designed for ...

Inside the audacious plan to convert a C-130 Hercules into a rocket-assisted Super STOL aircraft capable of landing in a confined urban space for a daring hostage rescue in Iran. Faced with an ever ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

Electra is building an aircraft that can take off and land using an airfield that's one-tenth the size of a standard runway. To demonstrate "blown lift" aero and hybrid-electric propulsion ...

The Gray Eagle STOL can be deployed aboard landing helicopter decks and small aircraft carriers as it requires a 100 m-long runway for take-off and recovery operations. (GA-ASI) Hanwha Aerospace and ...

Electra.aero Inc. recently demonstrated the value of its hybrid-electric Ultra-STOL (short takeoff and landing) technology to provide critical military logistics support to areas that are impossible ...