Smaller surfaces placed near the front of an airplane which provide lift and control forces
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Why was the deep-stalled prototype Velocity unable to come out of the stall, even with a 20-30deg nose-down attitude?
Test pilot Carl Pascarell got himself into an interesting situation while testing the Velocity prototype. With an aft-CG, he got himself into such a deep stall that flight was unrecoverable. Amazingly, when he prepared to bail out he noticed that…
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Why is a canard configuration more Structurally efficient for Rutan's Voyager?
Firstly, I’d like to kindly request not to mark this question as a duplicate of previous SE question without first reading this, because the approach is different and the previously given answers are merely incorrect.
Background
I found this…
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Why was building the Saab Viggen such an achievement of canard design?
In https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/80365/20394, @GuyInchbald says "Nevertheless, getting the darn thing into production after 60 years of failure was a staggering achievement."
What was so challenging about the Viggen's canards that it took 60…
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What makes wing strakes desirable?
Some planes have this large protruding part at the wing root. If my understanding is correct, it's a wing strake and it improves lift at high aoa via vortex induced lift on the rest of the wing. I have 3 questions.
1:If that's true, what are it's…
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Why does the Rutan Voyager use canards?
Can anyone point me to why Burt Rutan's Voyager is a canard?
In other words, what reasoning could be behind it. What problems Burt Rutan might have tried to solve by using Canard configuration in this specific aircraft
and why those problems may…
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Why do we use the length of the canard as 1/3 of the wing?
Twisted canard is our project, so we are designing and analysing the model. We compare the twisted canard with an untwisted canard to find the best among them.
The problem is we designed a canard of 1/3 length of the main wing(delta wing) as many…
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