Abstract: Researches on nonlinear flight control of fighter aircrafts are surveyed. Technical development directions for future advanced fighter aircrafts are summarized and major fighter aircraft flight control designing approaches are introduced. Research activities on neural network based intelligent flight control are introduced particularly. It is pointed out that, as an important research direction, neural network based intelligent adaptive control will provide potential flight control schemes for advanced fighter aircrafts in the future.

Key words: flight control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, intelligent control, neural network