RE: How to design an airplane
One note... TINY canard designs are special cases... as the foreplane gets smaller it suddenly becomes insignificant for producing lift. (thus the 5 inch chord note above) But its still fairly effective at controlling pitch IF you don't mess up its initial incdence.
Some designers goof and in overzealously tring to gan some lift from the foreplane when ts to small... set the foreplane at an obnoxiously high incidence. the thing starts to fly with the CG set by the balance calculation... but the plane NEVER performs well.
Keep the incidence of the foreplane within a degree or two of the incidence of the mainplane. Adjust the CG. and the CG will be VERY critical if the foreplane is small... contrary to normal for a canard. Normally a Canard would have a wider CG range than a conventional design, or a flying wing or just plane anythng but another canard. But tiny canards have a CG range of 3 to 5 milimeters.