And the forewing-first idea still suffers, in my view, from the unflatteringtranslation of the French word applied to that surface: canard. After all, aduck, by any other name ... or so it's always seemed. Not even modernapplications of the canard could retrieve it from the depths of degradationheaped on the humblest wing of all.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/ownership/eagle-150b-canards-for-our-times