Over the years, a wide variety of aircraft configurations have been flown with varying degrees of success. A brief survey of the handling qualities of canard, tandem wing, and flying wing designs indicates that longitudinal stability and control, lateral/directional stability and control, and stall behavior of these concepts were important factors in achieving pilot acceptance.
Handling Qualities of Canards, Tandem Wings, and Other Unconventional Configurations
Sae Technical Papers
Business Aircraft Meeting and Exposition ; 1983
1983-02-01
Conference paper
English
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