RE: Foreplane to wing incedence on a canard
I too found that I had to increase the V-stab area beyond what looked normal.
You can see from my photos added to my post abovethat my first model had one fin, but subsequent models had two. A double sized fin would have looked daft, I felt,
Boeing with their 787, and Airbus with the new, today, A350 strive for the absolute maximum efficiency obtainable, and yet the layouts are conventional.
There are quite a few delta canard fighters around, but no successful canard transport aircraft that I can think of. No aerobatic canards either: all your Edge, Pitts, Extras are conventional.
It is common for conventional aerobatic models to be rigged 0,0,0 and carry uptrim for positive lift and downtrim for negative lift (inverted)
I usually rig mine +0.6 on the wing, with the engine and tail both at Zero.
Anyone know the angles for the Edge 540, Extra etc?
The Pitts has both wings at +1.5 degrees tailat zero, (all plus or minus 0.5). I asked the owner of a 1982 Pitts S2, and he looked it up for me.