Control of uncertain dynamical systems has been an area of active research for the past several decades and to this end,various robust control approaches have been proposed in the literature.The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) represents one prominent approach that has been widely studied and applied for designing robust controllers in diverse areas of engineering applications.In this work,a brief review of the approach and some of its applications in aerospace are discussed.The results show that the approach possesses immense potential to offer viable solution to real-life aerospace problems.