RE: Foreplane to wing incedence on a canard
Apparantly on the full size Long-EZ (or however it's spelled) sizing the foreplane for stall behavior was important.
Part of the design and testing was that for the given desired CG range the foreplane was sized so that it would stall before the mainplane, so it would drop it's nose into the stall rather than it's tail. On a model you could probbaly just keep moving the CG forward and backwards until that stall characteristic was achieved??