Ok, here is my idea as a canard concept. It may get built but I have too much stuff going on that may prevent me from any real building. There might be many changes but first off 1/2a is the best place for me since I'm very limited on space.

I have searched for the wild goose but been unable to find a photo.
I know that looking at it leaves it a bit confusing if the model is a twin engine or a single with twin booms.
I was thinking twin boom with a center nacelle .
electric would easily make starting a  finger saver a least.
It does kind of resemble a bird.

Flaps?

A canard might not need them. At least that is the impression I get when reading about other canard projects. It would save a little weight and complexity, too.

I had forgot bout those picks of my Blue Goose I call it.  It is my version of the Sarpolous Wild goose.  I have the trailing edge flaps of the main wing moving very little.  Also the front moving surface has been cut down on movement.  Set up in the method shown it was a hand full.  It was a challenge I made to myself to build the plane.  Someone at the time stated that canards could not do the stunt pattern.  It may not do a competitive pattern, but it will do a reconizable pattern.  My problem is no flying it enough.   

Is the B-2 a canard?   Maybe some of the experts will explain why we use flaps on stunt planes.  I have flown several stunt planes that did not even have flaps.   

Ok, do not shoot me here...some basic questions.
1. why do we use flaps in the first place?

My understanding, from lots of reading and very little plane building, is that it makes for a smoother looking square corner.  It's debatable whether they're actually necessary, as apparently folks can build flapless planes that corner square just fine -- except they don't look as good doing it.

2.  Even the B-2 has flaps and it has no conventional horizontal stab.

The "flaps" on the back end of a flying wing are the elevators.  High-lift devices on flying wings are restricted to leading edge slats, drooped leading edges, and maybe vortex generators (turbulators).

3. Does the flap increase lifT as speed drops? As in when you change direction. the lift is no longer in the direction the a/c was prior to the change in control surfaces movement. Not sure I'm explaineing what I mean clearly here.

A flapped wing will generate more lift before it stalls than an unflapped wing.  It'll also generate lots more drag.  I suspect that the biggest thing that flaps do for you in control line stunt is to lessen the need for extreme pitch angle on the square corners, and generating more lift is only the second-biggest thing.

Flaps also give you the opposite pitch moment than what you want -- drop the flap trailing edge and you not only generate more lift for a given pitch angle, but you also make a pitch down moment which has to be overcome by the elevator.  This leads, if I'm not mistaken, to the need for the relatively enormous horizontal surfaces on flapped stunters vs. just about everything else in all creation.

OK, here is my read on flaps....

I believe those things apply very much to large ships of conventional design (although some seem to have done well without flaps).

In case of a 1/2A canard, some things are surely different.
- power is not all that abundant
- weight and drag may be more critical
- the elevator is in front of the wing. When you give an "up" control input, a conventional ship responds by moving its tail down, while a canard responds by moving its nose up.

... just armchair e-engineering here  ...

There are some things being said that are marginal and thats where the difference between the fact and subjective hit the wall.
Yes the stability of a canard is that the front wing will stall before the back wing. But flight for aerobatic's use thrust to overcome stall in the first place. A brick with enough thrust will still fly.
Yes I built the b-2 it has elevator and flaps, and rudders though not the way most people think of rudders. Plus aerolons.<sp>

Beyond that I cannot say a whole lot.

If the down wash from the flaps help the elevator do its job in normal flight. Does that mean when inverted it works against it ?
My understanding was that it modify's the airfoil creating more lift while the elevator turns/pivots the fuselage and the thrust pulls the plane along the path.
Simplified explanation here.

Fascinating...helps explain why the CG has to be considerably ahead of the LE on a canard. 

Gives me some more ideas too...