The large variety of canard designs illustrates that, unlike the case of aft-tail designs, a consensus on optimal canard size has not yet emerged. Some of Burt Rutan's canard designs.; One possible explanation for this lies in the fact that aircraft performance is much more sensitive to canard size than to tail size.
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For unstable aircraft, canard designs may have a CLmax and/or drag advantage. ... Control authority is larger for unstable canard aircraft at high CL than for unstable aft-tail designs. ... Induced drag / CLmax incompatibility: Canard designs can achieve equal or better CLmax values than conventional designs, and similar values...
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Rutan's creative vision led to the formation of his own Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1974 to design and market innovative canard designs for home-built light aircraft such as the VariEze and the Long-EZ. (A canard is a horizontal stabilizer mounted on the fuselage in front of the wings;
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Canard (aeronautics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the horizontal stabiliser is ahead of the main wing, rather than behind them as in conventional ...
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Miles' Canard Designs ... Westland was a very innovative company and during the years before World War II, a number of exciting designs were flown, including the Pterodactyl flying-wing aircraft, controlled by all-movable wingtips.
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Careful design of a canard aircraft can make it effectively "stall-proof" - the canard surface stalls first which tends to pitch the nose down and prevent the main wing from stalling. Canard designs can sometimes have a more useful range of centre of gravity.
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