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Mike Rogers
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248 pages
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VTOL: Military Research Aircraft
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A comprehensive history of vertical take-off and landing aircraft examines VTOL experimentation, development, and deployment, as well as the different types of VTOL aircraft from tailsitters to vectored jets.
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