[quoteSantos-Dumont renounced the canard wings in the beginning of 1907, Bleriot dropped them in spring 1907, even the Voisin brothers finally gave up canards. ][/quote]
You have to differentiate between utilising "canard " elevators and canard configuration i.e. "canards" ,in which the canard wing normally provides an element of total lift and there is no horizontal stabilising or otherwise surface to the rear of the main wing (i.e. as in the so called "three surface" configuration).
As far as I know the Voisin bothers only built one series of canard winged aircraft, as late as around 1910, predominantly as seaplanes.
Contrary to Simplex1's assertion, Maxim's aircraft was not a canard.
Last edited by Haraka; 29th Jun 2014 at 12:01.