eSTOL

Electric Short Takeoff and Landing. This is a class of electric aircraft with high-lift wing setups, capable of taking off and landing at slow speeds on short runways.

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Watch: High-tech eSTOL aircraft hardly needs any runway

This remarkable hybrid-electric aircraft has raked in more than US$8 billion on the back of its remarkable promise: quiet, long-range, low-emission flights using almost no runway for takeoff and landing. Watch it deliver in its first STOL test flight.
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Ultra-short takeoff and landing plane rakes in $8 billion in pre-orders

In all the buzz around eVTOLs, there's still plenty of appetite for more conventional electric planes – especially, it seems, if they make ludicrous amounts of lift, and can take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using absolutely tiny runways.
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Electra's eSTOL demonstrator aircraft makes its first flights

Two years ago, American air mobility company Electra announced that it was partnering with the US Air Force on the development of an ultra-short takeoff and landing (ultra-STOL) aircraft. Earlier this month, a demonstrator version of that plane made its first two flights.
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Hyundai outlines its hydrogen aviation plans, including regional eSTOLs

Hyundai Subsidiary Supernal is working on a battery-powered eVTOL, but the company is also gearing up to make moves in hydrogen aviation, leveraging its fuel cell auto experience. It's planning an eSTOL regional aircraft with a range over 620 miles.