Isn't that the problem with most scifi planes/ships/whatever in movies/TV that they are ludicrously undersized for their capabilities and/or extremely impractical too?
Not only that, there's a quite a few cases where the interior sets don't match up to the exterior models at all!
In this particular example (not being at all familiar with what it's supposed to do), I can understand that in real world, the landing skids on this one are influenced by X-15 and other high-speed experimental aircraft of the time. Which of course make perfect sense if you try to land on an unpaved salt lake bed, but much less so if landing on a prepared runway or an aircraft carrier. Nevermind that even if you had full VTOL capabilities, you couldn't taxi at all with those skids, so you would have to do even the smallest position changes by hovering - or be towed around and again, wheels would be much more practical for that, there might be a reason why most of the traffic is on wheels and not on skids...
Landing pads/skids are a classic example of the Rule-Of-Cool winning far too often in popular sci-fi. Just about anything is better on wheels in practice. The weird thing is that many, if not most of the normal aircraft in the GA series had wheels, so it's not like there was a practical SFX reason for avoiding them.
The Angel Interceptors were general purpose fighter-bombers that operated over a huge patrol range, at hypersonic speeds, from a flying 'aircraft carrier' called Cloudbase. The skids engaged with tracks on the deck for a catapult launch that looks fairly sensible, and since all aircraft deck/hangar handing was automated, you might plausibly imagine them being moved around on pallets that the skids are also locked into.
However, it's the landing that was batshit-crazy: Cloudbase had 'landing platforms' on the back end that elevated to 45 deg, and the Angel approached them in a nose-up post-stall maneuver, aided by a forward-firing braking rocket at the tip of the tail fin, it's skids eventually hooking onto the platform! What could go wrong, huh? Why they didn't just do an arrested landing on that nice long deck is beyond me...
In the later animated (as opposed to puppet) series, they addressed quite a lot of this. The Angel Interceptors were much larger and more credible, and they landed and took off in sensible carrier-fashion from Cloudbase. At the front end of the deck there was a turntable elevator that delivered the aircraft to a conveyor-belt system that took it back ot the other end of the deck, refuelling and re-arming it as it went, before another tuntable elevator took it back up to the deck again for another launch.
