The invention relates to a reentry stage aircraft attitude control method based on an exponential time-varying second order sliding mode, belonging to the technical field of aircraft control. According to the reentry stage aircraft attitude control method, a plane symmetric unpowered aircraft model is taken as an object, feedback linearization is carried out on an affine nonlinear system of an aircraft, and the attitude control problem of the aircraft when reentering into the atmospheric layer is studied. The aircraft provides operating force and operating torque only through a pneumatic control surface. A control surface deflection angle signal [delta e delta a delta r]T is given through the designed control law, so that an attitude instruction omega c=[alpha c beta c mu c]T given by a guidance loop can be effectively tracked, the attitude angle tracking error can be guaranteed to be asymptotically converged, and strong robustness is generated for tremendous environment change, uncertain pneumatic parameters and external disturbance and the like in the reentry process. Meanwhile, the control law in the method only has integral of a switching function, so that the reaching stage of a sliding mode surface is eliminated, the control quantity is enabled to be a continuous signal, the buffeting phenomenon is effectively reduced, and good control accuracy is achieved.