Re: Early Canard

On Aug 1, 3:31 pm, Jim Wilkins <KB1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 1, 6:21 pm, Jim Wilkins <KB1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Aug 1, 1:50 pm, Dan <B24...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob Arndt wrote:
http://www.modelflight.regheath.com/earlybirds/images/1913Drzewiecki.jpg

Rob

The first successfully flown powered canard:

http://www.angelfire.com/linux/mlaha/htmlfiles/flightintro/craftpix/w...

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

This is the first successful powered aircraft in Europe. A spectator
yelled out "C'est un canard" (It's a duck) due to its long-necked
appearance:http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/1b/images/SantosDumontCanard.jpg

jsw

I should add than a canard is also a trick or deception in French:http://www.dicoperso.com/term/adb1aea5acaba357,,xhtml

jsw

And in English also. (Loan word.)

But it doesn't cover the other meanings of duck here, for example you
wouldn't say that the Eurofighter's canards make it a dead canard when
it goes against a fifth gen (or heck even full 4.5 with AESA) fighter.

-HJC
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