Modelling and Simulation of Vertical Landing Dynamics of an Aircraft Based on a Model System Selim Sivrioglu 1 Introduction A short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft has great advantages, espe- cially for navy aircraft carriers. The STOVL fighter gives a significant edge to a military due to its capability to operate from small surfaces. A state-of-the-art vertical lift and landing technology for fighter jets is currently available in F-35B aircraft (Boyce & Burt, 2009). Studies concerning STOVL aircraft attract much attention due to possessing some critical technology of such systems. Most of the published material concerning with STOVL aircraft technology written by engineers of F-35 program give overview of F-35 aircraft rather than an academic study. An earlier work written by NASA specialists, a nonlinear aircraft model based on wind tunnel data is studied in terms of powered and unpowered aerodynamics for a STOVL system without any given detail (Mihaloew & Drummond, 1989). Planar vertical take-off aircraft dynamics using AV-8B Harrier aircraft data is studied for a robust gain scheduled control by (Wu et al., 2008). A recent study (Wiegand et al., 2018) presented some technical details of the technology used in these aircrafts. This chapter focused on the landing dynamics of a STOVL aircraft in modelling perspective based on a proposed model system. Landing simulations are performed using model dynamic equations and assuming the lift forces as linear and nonlinear function of time. S. Sivrioglu (✉) Antalya Bilim University, Antalya, Turkey e-mail: selim.sivrioglu@antaya.edu.tr © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 T. H. Karakoc et al. (eds.), New Achievements in Unmanned Systems, Sustainable Aviation, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29933-9_8 67