Aircraft equipped with a distributed propulsion system having suction and pressure fans

A method, comprising:

• operating an aircraft by rotating one or more fans of a suction fan array and one or more fans of a pressure fan array, the one or more fans of the suction fan array and the one or more fans of the pressure fan array each being mounted to a wing of the aircraft, the one or more fans of the suction fan array being positioned primarily above a top surface of the wing and the one or more fans of the pressure fan array each being positioned primarily below a bottom surface of the wing;
• receiving, by one or more computing devices of the aircraft, a thrust demand and one or more parameter values for one or more parameters associated with the aircraft;
• generating, by the one or more computing devices, a control command based at least in part on the thrust demand and the one or more parameter values;
• and
• causing, by the one or more computing devices, one or more controllable devices of the aircraft to adjust at least one of a first operating point for the one or more fans of the suction fan array and a second operating point for the one or more fans of the pressure fan array based at least in part on the control command so that a pressure ratio of an air pressure below the bottom surface of the wing to an air pressure above the top surface of the wing is changed.