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Nov 13^th, 2005 at 6:36am

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Interesting article about the EZ-Rocket
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10008214/
I'm suprised that the record is only 11 miles.

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Reply #1 - Nov 13^th, 2005 at 11:25pm

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I wonder why these futuristic planes have foward canards as opposed to horizontal stabilizers?

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Reply #2 - Nov 14^th, 2005 at 1:11am

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I wonder why these futuristic planes have foward canards as opposed to horizontal stabilizers?

It's not that futuristic except for the rockets... this design first flew in 1975; very popular kit design.
The advantage of a canard forward of the CG is that it'll stall before the wing if angle of attack is wrong for a given airspeed, so the nose'll drop almost before you know it, just enough for the wing to get a grip again. They're very hard to stall, and tend to float down steeply but slowly if you manage to get things screwed up despite that.

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