"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message ...
"B2431" wrote in message
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During WW2 the Nazis were so impressed by the B-17 they designed their own
version. I think they only built 2. If memory serves it was called the
Ou812.

The only known picture of it flying has for some reason shown up on a
military humour site.


http://www.strategypage.com/humor/ar...ruttan_b17.asp

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

You are gonna be sorry you did this when someday in the future our resident
Germany-did-everything-first-and-better clown tosses this back as "proof"
that the Nazis were really ahead of the power curve when it comes to using
canards...

Brooks

I can't resist.

This Messerschmitt P.1011 "Ente" proposal is a clear canard designe:
http://www.luft46.com/mess/meente.html

"This was another variation of the P.1110 design. The design was of a
"duck" (Ente) configuration, that is, small wings (or canards) in
front with the larger wing to the rear. This was felt would allow good
pitch and lateral stability for low-speed flight characteristics. "

So clearly Messerschmitt were aware of the advantages a canard
offered.

Also these two Henschell designes the Hs P.75 and Hs P.87
http://www.luft46.com/henschel/henschel.html

It is interesting why the word "canard" is used: perhaps because the
leading winglets are "misleading". The Germans were using "Ente"
which is their word for "Duck" and the French word "canard" of course
means "duck".

This is the Google dictionary Definition:

canard:
An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.

A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an
aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing
and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.

An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the
main wing.

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[French, duck, canard, probably from the phrase vendre un canard à
moitié, to half-sell a duck, to swindle, from Old French quanart,
duck, from caner, to cackle, of imitative origin.]