REFLECTOR: Fwd: [c-a] Flaperons on a Canard Aircraft

[Scott Derrick]

I had heard that Burt did not want to add flaps or a articulating 
canard, because of that and other disagreements, Beech/Raytheon fired 
him and the Big boy engineers added the articulating canard, flaps among 
numerous other things. Some quite drastic and more fundamental than the 
canard changes. All these great changes by Raytheon doubled the weight, 
halved the range, quadrupled the complexity and ran costs through the 
roof.  IN desperation They hired Burt back and he attempted to reshape 
his dream into a successful competitor to the King Air, but it was to 
little to late.

Some think the Raytheon engineers purposefully tried to make the 
Starship to expensive so it would fail and the King Air would succeed. 
Having worked in commercial aerospace for a few years I think they just 
couldn't make the mental shift to such a "different" type off vehicle 
and destroyed it through incompetence.

Scott

Alex Balic wrote:
> Yes that is true- but it is a very difficult calculation to make- since 
> the wings are different. A system could theoretically be devised, but it 
> would be complicated and potentially dangerous, since unlike a 
> conventional aircraft, the balance of lift, and the speeds at which the 
> wing and canard stall are interdependent and an integral part of the 
> safety of the aircraft.  Burt Rutan worked on this problem with the 
> Starship project, and ended up using a variable sweep canard to affect 
> this – with no sweep, the canard generated more lift and flaps could be 
> deployed, with no flaps, the canard would sweep, and produce less drag. 
> You could try to recreate that, but I would not recommend it.
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> Alex
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> I have read  in this forum that if you put flaps on the main wing you 
> would also need to put them on the carard because both are lifting 
> wings. Cant remember anything else.
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