Three Surface Configurations
 

Greetings,

Does anyone have any views on and/or experience with three (lifting) surface designs - canard, wing, and stab - in in addition to what one can read in Andy Lennon's always useful book? (P'haps relevant, Lennon argues for and designs high wing loading planes while I prefer slow, wing loading designs, usually more or less parkflyer-ish.) I would appreciate to know which mistakes I do not have to repeat - I'm sure to make a lot anyway :D. Seems to have been a popular configuration before the Great War, and I'm rather partial to early flying boats.

Soft Landings
Torbjörn
Sweden

RE: Three Surface Configurations
 

I just got Andy's book and am pretty impressed that he has written about and tried what he preaches. His thoughts are appropriate for parkfliers also. The nice thing is that you haven't used a year's savings to try something in foam and balsa bits with a park flier. It is a great way to try out both Andy's approack and investigate some possible variations from it. Once the foam flyer is worked out then you could make it more refined.