"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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capability (what the heck is "S/VTOL"?) to allow them to both provide air

An olden days description of a plane that could do
Short take-offs or landings
or
Vertical take-offs or landings.

It does seem to have fallen out of use some time in the last
thirty years.

Damn, I'm old enough now that new fangled terms have
reached the forgotten obsolescent state...