Most notable former residents of Sheerness and Blue Town include Sir Stanley Hooker, inventor of the VTOL engine; Dr Richard Beeching, reorganizer of the British rail network; Michael Crawford, actor; Rod Hull, entertainer.
From 1985, the practice of operating Yakovlev Yak-38s in STOL mode instead of VTOL was introduced, allowing an increase in aircraft payload and range, and a replacement of Kamov Ka-25 helicopters with Kamov Ka-27 started.
The Yakovlev Yak-38 was a Soviet Navy VTOL aircraft intended for use aboard their light carriers, cargoships, and capital ships.
Despite his poverty he managed to construct the "Frost Airship Glider", which seems, in principle, to have resembled a vertical takeoff airplane, with gas-filled tanks.
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Short-tailed Falcon (Duan-wei-sun or Duanweisun, 短尾隼) is a Chinese experimental VTOL UAV that has very similar layout like that of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and it is also known as Bateleur.
In January 2005, Bezos told the editor of the Van Horn Advocate that Blue Origin is developing a sub-orbital space vehicle that will take off and land vertically and carry three or more astronauts to the edge of space.
In May 1951, Lockheed and Convair were awarded contracts in the attempt to design, construct, and test two experimental VTOL fighters that would be suitable for use by the Armed forces.
Other wind tunnel studies of deflected slipstream VTOL mechanics were conducted in 1955 and 1956 by Richard Kuhn and John Draper at the NACA Langley Research Center.
The Dornier DO-960 was a hybrid computer designed for the Dornier Do 31 experimental VTOL aircraft.
HK-Drone is a VTOL UAV that shapes like the UCAV in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and the name of the Linkall UAV is also directly borrowed from that of UCAV in the movie.
The Moller Skycar is a prototype personal VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft – a "flying car" – invented by Paul Moller who has been attempting to develop such vehicles for fifty years.
Paul Sandner Moller (December 11, 1936, Fruitvale, British Columbia Canada) is an engineer who has spent the past forty years developing the Moller Skycar personal vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle.
The first SC-1 (XG900) was used until 1971 for VTOL research and is now part of the Science Museum's aircraft collection at South Kensington, London.
The VTOL Aircraft Phillicopter is a 1970s Australian light utility helicopter designed and built by VTOL Aircraft of Newcastle West, New South Wales.
Bell X-14, an experimental VTOL aircraft flown in the United States in the 1950s