World-Class Short Stops
Apr 06, 2021
2 minutes
Daniel Bachmann
Short-takeoff and -landing (STOL) aircraft have been around since the 1930s, most recognizably as the type of fat-tired, propeller-driven planes flown by bush pilots into remote areas. But for a new, electrified generation of STOL aircraft, short-field landing spots might soon include urban rooftops as well as the Alaskan tundra.
“Electrification allows us to build aircraft with capabilities that don’t exist today,” says Marc Ausman, a former naval flight officer
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