• Integrated flight/propulsion coordination emerges as a central design pattern, unifying centralized robust controllers with partitioning to manage airframe–propulsion coupling in Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) and fighter configurations [1], [4], [5], [17], [18].

• Fault detection, diagnosis, and control reconfiguration are core reliability tools for aerospace systems, leveraging analytical redundancy, parity-space methods, and adaptive control to sustain performance amid faults [12], [13], [14], [19], [20].

• Intelligent/AI-inspired flight control explores neural networks, declarative/procedural control, and adaptive strategies to emulate natural intelligent behavior across flight envelopes [2], [3], [14].

• Conceptual design and optimization methodologies emphasize multidisciplinary exploration, robust propulsion–airframe integration, and standards-based parametric aircraft design tools [6], [7], [16].