what kind of plane is this?

[Sturzkampfflugzeug]

Planes with canards. What is the name they are given? Also, what is the plane in the attached image?

 

[Geedee]

Looks like its a Miles M39 Libellula. Initially designed with a potential to be used on Carriers but never went into production.

 

[Sturzkampfflugzeug]

Oh neato
Thansk!

 

[fubar57]

Initially designed with a potential to be used on Carriers but never went into production.

Thank God

 

[pbehn]

Oh neato
Thansk!

According to Wiki it is an M39B which was a 5/8 scale "model" of a bomber to prove the design. There were many radical designs at the time along the lines of the flying wing, usually they created more problems than they solved.
Miles M.35 Libellula - Wikipedia.
Miles M.39B Libellula - Wikipedia

 

[Snautzer01]

Call me Frenchie but i like it. What could it do spec wise ?

 

[Odoaker]

BTW, I read that planes with canards are unstable in flight and a flight correction computer is needed (even multiple times per second). On the other hand, such planes were built in the pre-computer age. So... what's the truth?

 

[pbehn]

BTW, I read that planes with canards are unstable in flight and a flight correction computer is needed (even multiple times per second). On the other hand, such planes were built in the pre-computer age. So... what's the truth?

Canards don't make an aircraft unstable.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Rutan used canards on many of his designs as an anti-stall measure. I imagine the thinking being that the canard will stall before the main wing.

 

[pbehn]

Call me Frenchie but i like it. What could it do spec wise ?

According to Wiki 102MPH with a flaps down stall speed of 59MPH. Those are 2x 140HP engines, not Merlins or the like.

 

[Sturzkampfflugzeug]

BTW, I read that planes with canards are unstable in flight and a flight correction computer is needed (even multiple times per second). On the other hand, such planes were built in the pre-computer age. So... what's the truth?

Canards would actually make the plane more stable in flight

 

[pbehn]

Canards would actually make the plane more stable in flight

Stability is only desirable when you want to be stable. A fighter aircraft is best on the edge of instability, the canards and computers on a Eurofighter turn an aircraft that is designed to be unstable into a flyable machine.

 

[Sturzkampfflugzeug]

It all depends to be honest

 

[jmcalli2]

BTW, I read that planes with canards are unstable in flight and a flight correction computer is needed (even multiple times per second). On the other hand, such planes were built in the pre-computer age. So... what's the truth?

The Wright Flyer was a Canard, or at least had the elevators forward of the wings.

 

[Odoaker]

The Wright Flyer was a Canard, or at least had the elevators forward of the wings.

True, but later such structures disappeared for a long time. There was a Focke-Wulf F 19, but no success, this company also designed such a bomber, but the military considered the project a silly idea. There had to be some reason for the bad opinion of Canard.

 

[Buster01]

Canards don't make an aircraft unstable.

If the horizontal surface and elevator are at the rear, they push the tail down for level flight. If they are in the front they provide upward lift to keep the nose up. If set up correctly, they stall or lose lift before the wing and the nose drops. preventing the main wing from stalling. Unless you really want to stall the main wing that is.

 

[jmcalli2]

True, but later such structures disappeared for a long time. There was a Focke-Wulf F 19, but no success, this company also designed such a bomber, but the military considered the project a silly idea. There had to be some reason for the bad opinion of Canard.

They came back in the 1930s. The first Lockheed jet fighter design had canards, and the Curtiss XP-55 had forward-placed elevators.

 

[NTGray]

BTW, I read that planes with canards are unstable in flight and a flight correction computer is needed (even multiple times per second). On the other hand, such planes were built in the pre-computer age. So... what's the truth?

It is possible that your memory is confusing "canard" with "forward-swept wings" such as the Grumman X-29 had. The X-29 was indeed highly unstable and required computer assist, but canards such as the Rutan VariEze are extremely stable.

 

[pbehn]

Canard, French for duck has to be the most vague term in the aviation vocabulary, wiki advises that it started with this

Santos-Dumont 14-bis - Wikipedia

 

[wingnuts]

Planes with canards. What is the name they are given? Also, what is the plane in the attached image?

When assembling your aircraft please pay careful attention to the instruction booklet.