VTOL: Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

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🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Airplanes are wonderful things. They fly through the air and move people and goods at rapid speeds around the world. However, they have some downsides. In order to take off and land, an airplane requires an enormous amount of land for runways. So, for over a century, aeronautical engineers have been trying to create a vehicle that has all the strengths of an airplane but could take off and land like a helicopter. ….and they’ve kind of done it. Learn more about vertical take-off and landing aircraft and the challenges in designing them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed MasterClass Get up to 50% off at MASTERCLASS.COM/EVERYWHERE Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! ButcherBox New users that sign up for ButcherBox will receive 2 lbs of grass-fed ground beef in every box for the lifetime of their subscription + $20 off your first box when you use code daily at checkout! Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Ben Long & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Airplanes are wonderful things. They fly through the air and move people and goods at rapid speeds
0:05.4	around the world. However, they have some downsides. In order to take off in land, an airplane requires
0:11.6	an enormous amount of land for runways. So for over a century, aeronautical engineers have
0:17.0	been trying to create a vehicle that has all of the strengths of an airplane, but
0:21.1	could take off and land like a helicopter.
0:23.9	And they've kind of done it.
0:26.4	Learn more about vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and the challenges in designing them
0:30.8	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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1:30.3	If you ever look at a satellite image of a city, you can usually spot the airport pretty easily, regardless of the size of the city.
1:41.3	That's because airports and runways are huge. Large aircraft
1:46.4	require long runways. Airports and runways are so large that they usually have to be placed
1:51.7	on the outskirts of cities. All of this is required because of the way airplanes work. They
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