homebuilt safety

Richard Riley wrote in message . ..

.................................... When I say exactly, I mean
exactly - to the fraction of an inch in planform, with the same
templates, with the same modified Eppler airfoil on the mains, and the
same Roncz 1145 MS on the canard.............

Rich,

There is a curiosity that I found about the SQ2000. When Stan
demonstrated stall, the plane did not dip and dive (bobing) like
typical canards, but simply descended at a steady rate - or climbed at
a steady rate in a power stall. The canard just shakes slightly
almost like conventional aircraft before a stall - i.e. it failed
gradually and not suddenly. The feature shure wis handy if you
inadvertendly land too slow - it would descend at steady rate and not
dive into the ground.

I haven't seen this behaviour mentioned for other canards and Stan would
not tell me how he got that. Are there other canard designs that do
that? Do you know how it works?

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Paul Lee, SQ2000 canard: http://www.abri.com/sq2000