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Bournemouth Airport is situated on the edge of Hurn village in the BCP Council area, 4 miles (6 km) north of Bournemouth, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the A338 and approximately 100 miles (160 km) south west of London. The airport is accessible via the A31 from the M27 and M3 motorways to the east, and via the A35 to the west.
Members of the public pulled a Titan Airways Boeing 737, weighing 33,000 kg, 50 metres along tarmac at the airport. [20] Tesco stores in the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Ferndown and Poole areas of Dorset held a collection week from 30 August 2011, whereby they collected money for the Red Arrows Charitable Trust. On 3 September 2011, staff in ...
NASA Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft: US 1974 Research Prototype PAC P-750 XSTOL: New Zealand 2001 Utility Production 1,196 ft (365 m) 950 ft (290 m) [31] Peterson 260SE/Wren 460: US 1988 Utility Production 1,000 ft (305 m) 1,000 ft (305 m) Conversion of Cessna 182. [32] Pilatus PC-6 Porter: Switzerland 1959 Utility Production 600 ft (183 m)
A STOLport or STOLPORT was an airport designed with STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) operations in mind, usually for an aircraft class of a certain weight and size. The term "STOLport" did not appear to be in common usage as of 2008, although was commonly used by pilots flying into Biggin Hill during 1986/87 when the London City Airport was opened restricting approaches and ceilings to the ...
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.
A Sea Harrier launches from the flight deck of HMS Illustrious in 2001. A short take-off and vertical landing aircraft (STOVL aircraft) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is able to take off from a short runway (or take off vertically if it does not have a heavy payload) and land vertically (i.e. with no runway).
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The Short SC.1 was the first British fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing jet aircraft. It was developed by Short Brothers . It was powered by an arrangement of five Rolls-Royce RB.108 turbojets , four of which were used for vertical flight and one for conventional horizontal flight.