a wing having a trailing edge and independently deflectable flight control surfaces located along the trailing edge, the wing being capable during flight of generating a normal lifting force having a spanwise force distribution across the wing; and

a control surface reconfiguration system wherein, for each of a plurality of different flight conditions, the flight control surfaces are selectively reconfigurable to respective predetermined positions, which in combination, optimize the spanwise force distribution across the wing for each of the plurality of different flight conditions including a low speed flight condition wherein first selected ones of the deflectable flight control surfaces located at stall-critical spanwise locations are positioned to increase a local coefficient of lift and other deflectable flight control surfaces are positioned to control pitch trim.