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Old 4th Nov 2016, 14:21
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Everything in Typhoon is 'modern' so all of the terms for the systems and components are 'modern' as well, just so you don't forget.

I have read some new (< 10 yrs old) publications that refer to these before-wing control surfaces as foreplanes, but I have read many other (more classical) aerodynamic reference documents that refer to them as canards. Some even refer to the wing-foreplane combination as a canard configuration... This appears to be a European creation - modern US reference literature has yet to catch up.

It's a bit like saying that fuel quantity must be measured in Kg.
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