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Canard is French for duck, and is often used in English to refer to a deliberately false story, originating from an abbreviated form of an old French idiom, "vendre un canard à moitié," meaning "to half-sell a duck." In French it can also mean a journal. It may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ... An idiom is an expression (i. ...
Canard (aeronautics), flight control surfaces mounted at the front of an aircraft or an aircraft bearing such surfaces
Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical French newspaper. The newspaper gave itself birth to another meaning for canard: newspaper.
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In aeronautics, canard (French for duck) is a type of fixed-wing aircraft in which the tailplane is ahead of the main lifting surfaces, rather than behind them as in conventional aircraft.
The canard surface normally produces positive (upwards) lift which adds to the overall lift, whereas a conventional tailplane normally produces a downforce, partially cancelling the lift from the main wings.
Deploying flaps causes a large nose-down pitching moment, but in a conventional aeroplane this effect is considerably reduced by the increased downwash on the tailplane which produces a restoring nose-up pitching moment.
Canard Pars was a member of the Earth Alliance's Eurasian Federation and piloted the CAT1-X1/3 Hyperion Gundam Unit 1 until the end of the war in November C.E. He is a failed prototype of the "Ultimate Coordinator" project that produced Kira Yamato, and Canard was the only failed prototype to survive.
Canard later destroyed CAT1-X2/3 Hyperion Gundam Unit 2, piloted by Balsam when he deserted the Alliance, and then Canard stole Hyperion Unit 2's "Zastava Stigmate" beam submachinegun for increased firepower.
In the end, Canard was defeated by Prayer, but Canard didn't die; instead Prayer protected Canard from the explosion of Hyperion's overloading reactor; Prayer died shortly after due to flaws to the cloning process.
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