Types of take-off and landing

thumb|Landing of Hawker Sea Fury FB 10 Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing", "touchdown" or "splashdown" as well. A normal aircraft flight would include several parts of flight including taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent and landing.

thumb|An McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet|F/A-18 taking off from an [[aircraft carrier]] thumb|An Embraer E175 taking off Takeoff or take-off is the phase of flight during which an aerial vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne. For space vehicles that launch vertically, this is known as liftoff.

thumb|upright=1.2|A Zenith STOL CH701|Zenair CH 701 STOL light aircraft

thumb|Flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, showing catapult layout thumb|Catapult launches aboard USS Ronald Reagan

thumb|right|Spanish Navy AV-8B Harrier II at the [[RIAT 2023]] thumb|right|A U.S. Marine Corps Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey|MV-22 Osprey prepares to land aboard a ship. A vertical and/or short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft is an airplane able to take off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are a subset of V/STOL craft that do not require runways at all. Generally, a V/STOL aircraft needs to be able to hover. Helicopters are not considered under the V/STOL classification as the classification is only used for aeroplanes, aircraft that achieve

thumb| and with a ski-jump takeoff-ramp for STOBAR STOBAR (acronym for short take-off but arrested recovery or short take-off, barrier-arrested recovery) is a naval aviation system used for the takeoff and landing of fixed-wing aircraft from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, where aircraft take off under their own engine power like a conventionally launched aircraft, often via a bow ski-jump to assist takeoff, but use arresting gears at the aft-deck to decelerate the aircraft upon landing. The STOBAR system can launch and recover ordinary fixed-wing navalised aircraft unlike the more spe

thumb|upright=1.35|The first "rocket-assisted" take-off in the United States, a Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory|GALCIT booster fitted to an [[ERCO Ercoupe, at March Field, California, 1941]] JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off) is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets. The term JATO is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for rocket-assisted take-off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG, for rocket-assisted take-off gear).

thumb|Aircraft landing on a runway.

flying maneuver of landing and taking off without stopping

unpowered vehicle designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle with strong traction power

Method of launching military aircraft

thumb|Apollo 16 LM Orion on the lunar surface, 1972 thumb|DC-XA landing in 1996 thumb|A Falcon 9 first stage performing a vertical landing, 2016

aviation action, usually in an emergency

Flying maneuver

system used to help aircraft get into the air

method used by an aircraft to depart and return to the ground

method of launching and landing light aircraft