The aircraft with aerodynamically shifted center of gravity
Inventor of the canard, Gustav Lachmann, proposed in the late 1930s to equip the tailless aircraft with a free-floating wing located at the front of the wing. This wing was equipped with a servo control, which was used to adjust its lift force. It served to compensate for the additional pitching moment of the wing that occurred during flap deployment. Since Lachmann was an employee of Handley Page, the company owned the patent for […]
