An aircraft attitude control configuration enables control surfaces to
provide attitude control for an aircraft at hover or low air speed
conditions. The aircraft attitude control configuration includes a
thruster mounted to an aircraft for thrusting air, a first control
surface kinematically coupled to the aircraft at a position downstream of
the thruster, and a second control surface kinematically coupled to the
aircraft at a position downstream of the thruster, the second control
surface being differentially movable with respect to the first control
surface such that a portion of the thrusted air from the thruster
generates a first vector force on the first control surface and another
portion of the thrusted air generates a second vector force on the second
control surface, so that the first and the second vector forces provide a
net roll moment about the Y-Roll axis.