canard
Canard is a French word for a duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom, “vendre un canard ? moiti?,” meaning “to half-sell a duck.” [1]
In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tailplane is ahead of the main wing, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft empennage. [2]
In this sense the aft-tailed aircraft is nothing more than a canard aircraft where the canard is much bigger than the wing. [3]
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There are two surface aircraft (tailed monoplanes, tailless biplanes and “canard” aircraft). [...] Let’s ignore the tailless biplanes for the moment and just look at the canards and the so-called “conventional” monoplanes (which in this case means any monoplane with the tail at the back, whether it’s a V, T, or “conventional” tail). [3]
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. [1]
The arguement typically given in favor of canards is that they are more efficient (less induced drag) than an aft-mounted tail, because both surfaces are lifting upward, instead of a wing lifting upward and a tail lifting downward. [3]
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It is very possible for a fully stable aft-tailed aircraft to have upward lift on the tail surfaces. [3]
The canard wing exists in two classes: the control-canard and the lifting-canard. [...] In the lifting-canard, the weight of the aircraft is always shared between the main wing and the canard wing. [2]
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Sources:
[1] Canard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Canard (aeronautics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] ASK DJ Aerotech Question
[4] LeCanard