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Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1948. MacMillan, 1948. Bridgeman, Leonard Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1959–60. Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1959. Fillingham, Paul Basic Guide to Flying. New York: Hawthorn, 1975. ISBN 0-801-50525-9; Jackson, Paul Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 2004–05, Janes Publishing Company, 2004.
2.1 Shortest distance. 3 Other types of ... This list of flight distance records contains only those set without any mid ... Closed-circuit world record 1945 ...
STOL (Short Take Off and Landing). STOL performance of an aircraft is the ability of aircraft to take off and clear a 50-foot obstruction in a distance of 1,500 feet from beginning the takeoff run. It must also be able to stop within 1,500 feet after crossing a 50-foot obstacle on landing. —
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In 2017 the aircraft set a new STOL world record at Valdez, with a take off in 13 feet 8 inches, and a landing in 10 feet 5 inches. [3] In 2018, the aircraft set a new STOL world record at Valdez, with a take off in 11 ft 0 inches. [4]
It continued in primarily NASA test operations until September 2003. The shortest takeoff distance was achieved with the nacelles at 75 degrees angle. [8] After N703NA was retired from test operations, it was donated to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The XV-15 was flown cross-country from Fort Worth, Texas to ...
cost of new is €1500 and up, [22] cheapest but shortest lasting (around 500 hours flying time, depending on treatment), active second-hand market [23] cost of new glider very high (top of the range 18 m turbo with instruments and trailer €250,000) but it is long lasting (up to several decades), so active second-hand market; typical cost is ...
This distance set a new record for the longest aircraft flight in history, breaking the old records of 24,987 miles (40,213 km) in an airplane and 25,360 miles (40,810 km) in a balloon. The landing was made at Bournemouth Airport , England (short of the planned destination at Kent), because of a generator failure at 40,000 feet (12,000 m).