Originally posted by Engadget on Mar 18th, 2010
VTOL (Vertical take-off and landing) isn’t anything real new these days, but a jet that can stop what it’s doing and hover in mid-air? Now that’s amazing. The $83 million-plus, F-35B supersonic jet can do just that.
The jet did a usual takeoff and the aircraft hit about 200 knots before the pilot switched into STOVL resulting in a zero airspeed hover 150 feet above the runway. This is the first "mid-air hover" by the aircraft, and if development continues at the pace most of these programs do it should see active service soon.
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