REFLECTOR:accidents/incidents

[Scott]

>  If you point the nose straight up, the airspeed will
>eventually bleed down to zero & the main wing will
>stall.

If you could manage to fly straight up, its possible for the airspeed to 
get below the main wings flying speed, isn't that called a Hammerhead 
stall?  But as soon as you dropped out the main wing would start to fly 
first, as designed, and then your canard would start to fly, as 
designed.   The plane would fly out  of teh stall jsut a nicely as a 
conventional design.

>A properly rigged & loaded
>Velocity, like most canards, is only stall proof
>within the "normal" flight envelope.

Bull shit, pure and simple.

With a properly rigged canard it is "IMPOSSIBLE" to stall the main 
wing(with the one exception noted above). Plain and simple.   Thats the 
beauty of the design.

You need to talk to some people who really know about canards.

The only way to "Deep Stall" a canard is to build it incorrectly, ie.. 
incorrect canard or wing incidence , etc. or to load the CG pretty far aft 
of the limit, that's the only way.  If it is built correctly and loaded 
correctly you can't stall it on "ANY" flight attitude that would result in 
a spin or Deep stall, period.  No if's, no and's, no but's.

Scott