Estimated STOVL Strike Fighter Danger Area
Published Date: January 1, 1992
Effects of impinging gas from the AV-8B Short-Takeoff Vertical-Landing (STOVL) aircraft require that personnel remain 50 feet away during vertical operations. In future STOVL aircraft, vertical thrust will be greater, with a potentially larger danger area. This memorandum examines the factors that determine the size of the danger area and models the amount of area future STOVL aircraft will need.
