Welcome back to the Daily Aviation for a feature on the Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the F-35 stealth fighter and attack aircraft, operated by the US Marine Corps. Footage ...

The first short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35 Joint Strike Fighter could begin powered-lift testing on the hover pit at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant as early as this week.

While most people are aware of what an aircraft carrier is from movies, seeing them in person, or serving aboard them, there's another similar craft many are unfamiliar with. The helicopter carrier is ...

The Cavour aircraft carrier will carry out F-35B STOVL (Short Take Off Vertical Landing) qualification off the U.S. East Coast. According to journalist Xavier Vavasseur, the imminent trials were ...

The term “austere airfield” has many meanings in defense literature. In regard to support infrastructure, the term generally implies very limited or nonexistent facilities for storing fuel, housing ...

The short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is unlikely to conduct initial at-sea testing on schedule in March 2011 because of delays in clearing the vertical-landing ...

General Electric and Rolls-Royce are preparing to begin short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) testing of a prototype F136 engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The GE/R-R ...

Members of the JSF team expected the USAF to order STOVL-capable JSFs long before Air Force Chief of Staff General John P Jumper announced his intention to do so at the Air Force Association's Air ...

Two powered - lift concepts, the tandem fan and the longitudinally-arrayed ejector , are integrated with two existing fighter aircraft, the F-14A and F-16A respectively, to indicate the benefits ...