The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a multi-role combat aircraft which is now under full-scale development for Flygvapnet.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: SAAB Gripen / JAS-39A/C - ШвецияSweden - 1988

The Zhukovskii Academy-designed Utka

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: МиГ МиГ-8 Утка - РоссияRussia - 1945

Postwar interest in the canard configuration was represented by the MiG-8 Utka designed by students of the Zhukovskii Academy

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: МиГ МиГ-8 Утка - РоссияRussia - 1945

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Wright Flyer - СШАUSA - 1903

The Wright brothers’ canard biplane which flew for the first time 80 years ago this month.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Wright Flyer - СШАUSA - 1903

The most spectacular canard delta yet flown was the Mach=3.0 XB-70 Valkyrie strategic bomber seen here with its wingtips drooped, this extremely advanced warplane failing to progress further than prototype flight test.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: North American XB-70 Valkyrie - СШАUSA - 1964

The extraordinary Santos Dumont 14bis, which, responsible for the first officially-recognised powered flight in Europe in 1906, employed a forward-mounted boxkite-like contraption for pitch control.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Santos-Dumont 14bis - ФранцияFrance - 1906

Avions Marcel Dassault investigated the possibilities of a retractable foreplane with a derivative of the Mirage 5 known as the Milan, this arrangement later being emulated by the Tupolev bureau for the Tu-144.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Dassault Mirage Milan - ФранцияFrance - 1969

Among canard combat aircraft currently under construction is the IAI Lavi dual-role fighter which is scheduled to enter Israeli service from 1989.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: IAI Lavi - ИзраильIsrael - 1986

The initial configurations of the ACA (left) and ACX (right), closely comparable design projects for an agile combat aircraft, being developed by British Aerospace in collaboration with MBB and Aeritalia, and Dassault-Breguet respectively. The resurgence of interest in the canard layout for fighters, as revealed by these projects, results from the advent of full-time fly-by-wire control.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe EAP - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1986

Выполнивший первый полет в конце 1930 года, второй F 19 выставили в музее "Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung" в районе Берлин-Моабит. Самолет был уничтожен в 1944 году налетом авиации союзников.
The Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente, one of the first post-World War I canards

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente - ГерманияGermany - 1927

The Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente - ГерманияGermany - 1927

The turbojet-powered Nord 1500 Griffon I
NOSEPLANE DELTA Nord 1500 Griffon. Photo shows intake and empennage variations. Experts judge the Griffon to be the world's most advanced delta-wing prototype.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Nord Nord 1500 Griffon - ФранцияFrance - 1955

The ramjet/turbojet-powered Griffon II

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Nord Nord 1500 Griffon - ФранцияFrance - 1955

The M.39B which George Miles insisted was a true tandem-winged aircraft.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Miles Libellula / M.39 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1943

The Miles M.35, a simple wooden flying mock-up to prove the feasibility of the configuration for a projected shipboard fighter.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Miles Libellula / M.35 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1942

The Model 24 Ascender alias XP-55

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Curtiss XP-55 Ascender - СШАUSA - 1943

Only three piston-engined fighters of canard configuration were built and flown, one of these being the Curtiss XP-55 Ascender which had an ingenious floating foreplane.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Curtiss XP-55 Ascender - СШАUSA - 1943

The first prototype J7W1 Shinden which logged only 45 minutes in the air.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Kyushu J7W Shinden - ЯпонияJapan - 1945

Only three piston-engined fighters of canard configuration were built and flown, one of these being the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden which was, in fact, ordered into production

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Kyushu J7W Shinden - ЯпонияJapan - 1945

The 85 per cent scale flying model of the forthcoming Beechcraft Starship I business aircraft with its unique variable-geometry foreplane seen at maximum sweep angle.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Beechcraft Model 2000 Starship - СШАUSA - 1986

The sole example of the Ambrosini S.S.4 Canard.
Stefanutti’s S.S.4, the second flight of which concluded with its destruction.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ambrosini SS.3 / SS.4 - ИталияItaly - 1938

Only three piston-engined fighters of canard configuration were built and flown, one of these being the SAI Ambrosini S.S.4 with staggered-biplanes forward surfaces

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ambrosini SS.3 / SS.4 - ИталияItaly - 1938

Example of current general aviation types of canard configuration is provided by the Avtek 400

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avtek Model 400 - СШАUSA - 1984

The Curtiss-Wright Model 24B, the full-scale flying mock-up of the Model 24 Ascender alias XP-55

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Curtiss-Wright CW-24B - СШАUSA - 1941

Postwar interest in the canard configuration was represented by the LDA-01 designed by David Lockspeiser as a 70 per cent scale prototype for a projected utility aircraft

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Lockspeister LDA-01 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1971

Roland Payen’s PA 22 which was described as "tandem-winged" - a semantic nicety - and might be considered as presaging the current vogue for the canard delta configuration.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Payen Pa.22 / Pa.112 Flechair - ФранцияFrance - 1942

One of the many canard homebuilts flying is the Gyroflug Speed Canard, a German derivative of the Rutan VariEze

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Gyroflug Speed Canard - ГерманияGermany - 1980

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the creation of Paulhan

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Paulhan biplane - ФранцияFrance - 1910

Payen’s first canard delta, the PA 100

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Payen Pa.100 - ФранцияFrance - 1935

British interest in the canard delta configuration for a strategic bomber project was represented by the Avro 730

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Type 730 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1957

Postwar interest in the canard configuration was represented by the single-seat R.M.-12 designed in Romania by Radu Manicatide.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Manicatide RM-12 - РумынияRomania - 1952

De Havilland Aeronautical Technical School’s T.K.5 which was destined never to fly.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Technical School T.K.5 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1939

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the progeny of Ferber.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ferber No.9 - ФранцияFrance - 1908

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the progeny of Bonnet-Labranche.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bonnet-Labranche No.1 - ФранцияFrance - 1908

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the Zens of unknown origin.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Zens No.1 biplane - ФранцияFrance - 1908

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the creation of Blard

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Blard canard - ФранцияFrance - 1912

French examples of the many canard aircraft circa 1910: the creation of Besson

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Besson canard monoplane - ФранцияFrance - 1911

The first prototype of the Delanne 20T, the first of a series of tandem-winged aircraft designed by Maurice Delanne and described on occasion as "extremely staggered tailless biplanes"!

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Delanne Delanne 20T - ФранцияFrance - 1938

Sergio Stefanutti’s second canard, the two-seat S.S.2 is seen at the 2 Salone Internazionale dell’ Aeronautica of 1937

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ambrosini SS.2 - ИталияItaly - 1935

Sergio Stefanutti’s second canard, the two-seat S.S.2 which enjoyed some success

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ambrosini SS.2 - ИталияItaly - 1935

Wartime interest in the canard configuration evinced by the Henschel Flugzeugwerke resulted in the P.75 heavy fighter project which progressed no further than the drawing boards

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Henschel P.75 / P.87 - ГерманияGermany - 1942

Wartime interest in the canard configuration evinced by the Henschel Flugzeugwerke resulted in the P.87 highspeed bomber project which progressed no further than the drawing boards

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Henschel P.75 / P.87 - ГерманияGermany - 1942

British interest in the canard delta configuration for a strategic bomber project was represented by the Handley Page proposal to meet the same requirement as by the Avro 730

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Handley Page H.P.100 / OR.330 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1957

British interest in the canard delta configuration for a strategic bomber project was represented by the Vickers proposal to meet the same requirement as by the Avro 730

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Vickers R.156T / Type 799 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1957

One of the many canard homebuilts flying is the Bezzola RB-02 Retro

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Bezzola GB-02 Retro - ШвейцарияSwitzerland - 1980