On 3 Mar 2005, Shin Gou wrote:

I read a while ago in a thread that someone said canard design doesn't
like high thrust line

Having flown a canard for the last six years, I say that you are correct.
They usually need over 1000 ft for takeoff, and a high thrust line would
lengthen that somewhat.

But, I just opened an ASF safety mailing, about accidents while
manuvering,
the graph showed that about one half of those accidents were stall/spins,
the other large percentage was buzzing accidents. Very comforting to
a canard pilot.


George Graham
RX-7 Powered Graham-EZ, N4449E
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