Canard

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

In aeronautics, a canard (French for duck) is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon. The term "canard" may be used to describe the aircraft itself, the wing configuration, or the foreplane.

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