VTOL - A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically. Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes CTOL - conventional take-off and landing aircraft STOL - short take-off and landing aircraft STOVL - short take-off and vertical landing aircraft eVTOL - Electric and hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft V/STOL - vertical or short take-off and landing VTOL is a subset of V/STOL Featuring Zhuchenko Vertoplan - 1938 Focke-Wulf Triebflügel - 1944 Heinkel Lerche - 1944 Convair XFY Pogo - 1954 Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee - 1955 Bell XV-3 - 1955 Bell X-14 - 1957 Fairey Rotodyne - 1957 Short SC.1 - 1957 Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 - 1958 VZ-9 Avrocar - 1959 Hiller X-18 - 1959 Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep - 1959 SNECMA - 1959 Hawker Siddeley - 1960 Republic AP-100 - 1960 Dassault Balzac V - 1962 Lunar Landing Research Vehicle - 1964 Bell X
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