V/STOL History Brief

Presented annually at the US Naval Academy and other prestigious institutions, this brief summarizes the 45 different aircraft that have been built and tested to try to combine the vertical take-off and landing capability of a helicopter with the high forward flight speed of a fixed wing aircraft.

V/STOL History Overview Brief (1.4 MB pdf file)

V/STOL Wheel

The V/STOL Wheel of Mis-Fortune