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No other airplane I’ve flown can do what the SuperSTOL can. STOL, as you know, stands for “short takeoff and landing.” SuperSTOL, then, implies really short takeoffs and landings, made possible by the airplane’s huge 45-degree fowler flaps and self-deploying leading-edge slats, designs borrowed from the Helio Courier bush plane and scaled to fit this diminutive two-seat experimental amateur-built kitplane. ....
The Dornier Do-29 was intended to study the feasibility of utilizing vectored thrust to achieve extreme slow flight and short takeoff and landing (STOL) performance. ....