Crazy Looking VTOL Aircraft Type and Size Comparison 3D
VTOL - A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.
Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes
CTOL - conventional take-off and landing aircraft
STOL - short take-off and landing aircraft
STOVL - short take-off and vertical landing aircraft
eVTOL - Electric and hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
V/STOL - vertical or short take-off and landing
VTOL is a subset of V/STOL
Featuring
Zhuchenko Vertoplan - 1938
Focke-Wulf Triebflügel - 1944
Heinkel Lerche - 1944
Convair XFY Pogo - 1954
Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee - 1955
Bell XV-3 - 1955
Bell X-14 - 1957
Fairey Rotodyne - 1957
Short SC.1 - 1957
Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 - 1958
VZ-9 Avrocar - 1959
Hiller X-18 - 1959
Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep - 1959
SNECMA - 1959
Hawker Siddeley - 1960
Republic AP-100 - 1960
Dassault Balzac V - 1962
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle - 1964
Bell X