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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 ...
Bournemouth Airport (IATA: BOH, ICAO: EGHH) (previously known as Hurn Airport and Bournemouth International Airport) is an international airport located 3.5 NM (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) north-northeast of Bournemouth, [2] in southern England. The site opened as RAF Hurn in 1941, but was transferred to civil control in 1944.
The Bournemouth Air Festival is an annual air show held along the coast at Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. It has featured aircraft from the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy, as well as civil aviation displays. Since its formation in 2008, the festival claims to have entertained over ten million people.
Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing or Conventional Take-off and Landing operation is preferred to VTOL operation. V/STOL was developed to allow fast jets to be operated from clearings in forests, from very short runways, and from small aircraft carriers that would previously only have been able to carry helicopters .
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.
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)
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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).