Hi guys and many thanks for your replies....... will try to answer the best I can:

cwrr5: Yes, the reason for the flap is to create drag and produce more lift at lower airspeed to shorten take-off and make approaches steeper. I fly from a rather confined field with big pines and firs. My avatar-canard was tough to land forcing me to approach between two big pines. Any “cool-factor” of the flap would be a bonus…never mind..
Allan: adding a third surface in between two canard wings(b) must NOT in my mind necessarily move the n.p. at all if new wing is properly located. See my attached example with a third larger wing added but with its 25% chord point exactly overlapping the n.p. of the original canard(a)....n.p. stays the same…right..?
Paul: the position of this third wing must be critical to avoid a pitch response assuming the c.g. of the ship is unaltered..right..?
All: as to the pitching moment of the third mid flap my assumption is that it would have a very marked “nose down pitching moment” when flap is lowered and that would further “load down” the already heavily loaded foreplane. To compensate for that I suggested in post #1 to move it a bit forward and coincide with the c.g. rather than the n.p. of the plane. That was my initial TLAR type of reasoning…but shoot it down if you will..!

So the Ferret is your creation Allan.!!….I was so fascinated by it I had to buy a back issue of RCM just for the sake of the Ferret but I´m sorry to hear she is just hanging there now…..more pix..??...pliiiiiis…!