Canard aircraft hold several FAI recognized world records in altitude,
speed, and range. A canard holds the CAFE Challenge efficiency record
and will likely have a lock on it for years to come. Canards have
been flown to numerous first-place race wins and high race placings in
competitions against non-canard designs.

That's not engineering analysis, that rhetoric trying to impress and to
win an argument. Can we go back to lift distributions, please?

Ed Wischmeyer