A vertical take-off and landing (or VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway. This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros and gyrodynes. The BX-50 LIFT is a plane made with the blood (literally), sweat, and tears of the Special Vehicles Team (SVT) at Bighead Engineering. The BX-50 LIFT concept first started with the engineer Miroslav Nowak, seeing the problem of Bighead airbases being bombed by Rhich he designed Bighead's first VTOL jet. After proposing this concept to the Airforce, Navy, and the Army he went to the SVT to have a prototype made. His original concept for this VTOL fighter was a variant of the BX-2A Warrior Advanced with wing mounted swivel engines.

This prototype was called the “Zriadenec” which means undertaker.

The prototype plane was unsafe and took the lives of over 50 test pilots, however the testing went on as a VTOL aircraft could greatly benefit Bighead in the war. So after over 20 revisions the jet took its final form as the BX-50 LIFT. The BX-50 LIFT is a multi role fighter with wing mounted swivel engines, its versatility with various loadouts and the ease of use with out a runway has been given the name by Rhich troops as “Diabol” wich means The Devil.

AG1 for VTOL