| 释义 |
STOLport orig. U.S.|ˈstɒlpɔːt|
Also STOL-port, stolport, etc.
[f. STOL (see S 4 a), after airport.]
An airport for aircraft which need only a short runway for take-off and landing.
1968N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 1/1 A stolport would serve planes that make a ‘short take-off and landing’. They use runways much shorter than those required by commercial jets. 1968Science News 7 Sept. 230 (caption) Frenetic ground travel to and from New York's main airports may be replaced by STOL-ports along the Hudson river. 1975Sunday Sun (Toronto) 12 Oct. 17/1 As the plan suggests, the airport and the STOLport would take over all of Toronto's air travel eventually. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Feb. 5/5 Nordair [is] getting permanent access to the Toronto island Airport and the Victoria STOLport in Montreal. 1980Times 3 June 19/5 The company has drawn up plans for a 2,000ft ‘stolport’ (short takeoff and landing airport) in the east Shetlands basin. 1982Times 24 June 3/4 A group of companies is proposing to build a small airport, to bring a different kind of transport interchange to the docklands known as a Stolport (Stol stands for short-take-off-and-landing). |