OT: Why so few airplanes with canards?...

[jeroen]

Sci.aeronautics is dead, it seems, so allow me to ask here.
At least it\'s not about climate, politics or removing X signs.

Why are there so few planes with canard wings? It seems to
me an obvious way to gain a few percent of efficiency: The
tail of an ordinary plane needs to have negative lift for
stability, which needs to be compensated for by extra wing
lift. A canard, on the other hand, contributes positive lift,
so I\'d expect less overall drag for the equivalent total lift.
So why are there so few that do this?

Jeroen Belleman

 

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:27:04 +0200) it happened jeroen
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in <u9re0a$1hd3h$1@dont-email.me>:

Sci.aeronautics is dead, it seems, so allow me to ask here.
At least it\'s not about climate, politics or removing X signs.

Why are there so few planes with canard wings? It seems to
me an obvious way to gain a few percent of efficiency: The
tail of an ordinary plane needs to have negative lift for
stability, which needs to be compensated for by extra wing
lift. A canard, on the other hand, contributes positive lift,
so I\'d expect less overall drag for the equivalent total lift.
So why are there so few that do this?

Jeroen Belleman

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_(aeronautics)

 

[Joe Gwinn]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:27:04 +0200, jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please>
wrote:

Sci.aeronautics is dead, it seems, so allow me to ask here.
At least it\'s not about climate, politics or removing X signs.

Why are there so few planes with canard wings? It seems to
me an obvious way to gain a few percent of efficiency: The
tail of an ordinary plane needs to have negative lift for
stability, which needs to be compensated for by extra wing
lift. A canard, on the other hand, contributes positive lift,
so I\'d expect less overall drag for the equivalent total lift.
So why are there so few that do this?

As I understand it, canards are mostly used for maneuverability, at
the level needed in fighter aircraft. But there are lots of options
to obtain the needed level of agility, and while canards are always
considered, they don\'t often win the tradeoff studies in aircraft. One
does see them in air-to-air missiles, where the key is to be able to
out-maneuver the intended target, often itself a fighter aircraft.

Joe Gwinn

 

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[jeroen]

On 2023-07-26 18:03, Joe Gwinn wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:27:04 +0200, jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please
wrote:

Sci.aeronautics is dead, it seems, so allow me to ask here.
At least it\'s not about climate, politics or removing X signs.

Why are there so few planes with canard wings? It seems to
me an obvious way to gain a few percent of efficiency: The
tail of an ordinary plane needs to have negative lift for
stability, which needs to be compensated for by extra wing
lift. A canard, on the other hand, contributes positive lift,
so I\'d expect less overall drag for the equivalent total lift.
So why are there so few that do this?

As I understand it, canards are mostly used for maneuverability, at
the level needed in fighter aircraft. But there are lots of options
to obtain the needed level of agility, and while canards are always
considered, they don\'t often win the tradeoff studies in aircraft. One
does see them in air-to-air missiles, where the key is to be able to
out-maneuver the intended target, often itself a fighter aircraft.

Joe Gwinn

It is possible to design planes that are marginally or entirely
unstable with either the usual configuration or with canards,
which is useful when exceptionally agility is needed.

My interest was more in passenger or transport aircraft, where
the usual target is economy. It\'s quite possible to design stable
aircraft with canards. It\'s a matter of where you put the centre
of gravity w.r.t. the centre of lift. I\'m just wondering if such
a plane could not also be made more economical.

I\'ve read arguments against canards because they would disturb
airflow over the wings. I think that argument doesn\'t hold water.

Jeroen Belleman

 

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[Dimiter_Popoff]

On 7/26/2023 20:27, jeroen wrote:

On 2023-07-26 18:03, Joe Gwinn wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:27:04 +0200, jeroen <jeroen@nospam.please
wrote:

Sci.aeronautics is dead, it seems, so allow me to ask here.
At least it\'s not about climate, politics or removing X signs.

Why are there so few planes with canard wings? It seems to
me an obvious way to gain a few percent of efficiency: The
tail of an ordinary plane needs to have negative lift for
stability, which needs to be compensated for by extra wing
lift. A canard, on the other hand, contributes positive lift,
so I\'d expect less overall drag for the equivalent total lift.
So why are there so few that do this?

As I understand it, canards are mostly used for maneuverability, at
the level needed in fighter aircraft.  But there are lots of options
to obtain the needed level of agility, and while canards are always
considered, they don\'t often win the tradeoff studies in aircraft. One
does see them in air-to-air missiles, where the key is to be able to
out-maneuver the intended target, often itself a fighter aircraft.

Joe Gwinn


It is possible to design planes that are marginally or entirely
unstable with either the usual configuration or with canards,
which is useful when exceptionally agility is needed.

My interest was more in passenger or transport aircraft, where
the usual target is economy. It\'s quite possible to design stable
aircraft with canards. It\'s a matter of where you put the centre
of gravity w.r.t. the centre of lift.  I\'m just wondering if such
a plane could not also be made more economical.

I\'ve read arguments against canards because they would disturb
airflow over the wings. I think that argument doesn\'t hold water.
Jeroen Belleman

I\'d expect they have experimented, blown in tunnels etc., whatever
they do and decided against it? May be whirlwinds (if this is the
correct word) or whatever lead to more losses. Or just friction
if these additional wings mean larger total surface.
But I have read about this less than you have, knew nothing about it
even a few decades ago when I liked to build flying models... Did not
understand the \"canards\" word, had to look it up.

 

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