WVR air combat is still inevitable in future. Accurate and agile nose-pointing capability at high-angle-of-attack is still essential and significant for fighter to survive and gain air superiority . This paper in terms of military fighter configura-tion reviews the technology and design considerations of high angle of attack problems of which wind tunnel experi-ments, aerodynamic modeling, nonlinear flight dynamics analysis, control law design and flight test are discussed. The research direction of high-angle-of-attack flight in the future is prospected.