A Brief Overview on Past Research on Coandă Assisted STOL Transport Aircraft

Abstract

The Coordinated Reserch Center SFB 880 aimed at developing technologies that enable aircraft designs for use on short airfields in the vicinity of populated urban areas. Capabilities for short take-off and landing have been in the focus of research already at the early stages of jet driven air transport in the second half of the previous century. However, only few aircraft applying such technologies went into serial production. This contribution aims to give a brief overview on the most remarkable aircraft projects without any claim on completeness. It focuses on large aircraft and thus omits - only for briefness - all technology demonstrations made on small aircraft and most military fighter aircraft. It intends to provide an overview on invented technologies in order to provide a basis to evaluate the significant achieve ments made on the SFB 880.