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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Gorgeous plane. Funny I’ve never noticed the little canards before.

I'm guessing those have something to do with pitch control for in-flight refuling.

11 posted on 06/03/2012 8:33:09 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Steely Tom

Yes, they are so small it must be for fine control or trimming.


15 posted on 06/03/2012 8:54:47 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Steely Tom

One thing the industry learned with the B-58 hustler is when in the TFR flight mode thinks got really shaky, enough to make the pilots sick. The initial B1 mission was low altitude under the radar penetration. For this they needed a good TFR auto flight control system to keep it out of the ground and as part of that the canards were added to dampen out the structural sine wave that came when rapid pitch changes were made by flight controls responding to approaching terrain changes.


23 posted on 06/03/2012 9:35:50 AM PDT by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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To: Steely Tom; ImJustAnotherOkie

They are for when the place is flying low and fast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_(aeronautics)#Active_vibration_damping


32 posted on 06/03/2012 10:09:49 AM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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