Sentence examples for vertical landing from inspiring English sources

Short take-off and vertical landing capability.

And the vertical landing [system] scales extraordinarily well".

"I'm a huge fan of rocket-powered vertical landing," he wrote on the Blue Origin website.

SpaceX has been quietly building an experimental vehicle called Grasshopper to test the vertical landing technology.

It would also use its engine for a powered vertical landing.

Vertical landing tasks strain the Achilles tendon and plantar-flexors, increasing acute and overuse strain injury risk.

One of the most ambitious proposals is for a propeller-powered vertical-take-off and vertical-landing platform to fly up and down the side of high-rise buildings.

In the recent past Taiwan has expressed interest in purchasing the even-newer F-35 fighters, for their vertical-landing capability (helpful if China's missiles take out Taiwan's runways).

They would carry short-take-off and vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, stealthy planes that are being developed jointly with America to replace the Harrier jump-jets.

Currently building a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing spacecraft.

This vertical-launching, vertical-landing manned suborbital vehicle has been in development for the last decade and took its maiden flight in April 2015.