Boy, nothing new under the sun, huh...here I thought my forward-swept canard would be unique. Now it seems it's been done over and over.  Well, I'm still the only one with the engine out front.  Maybe.  Some yahoo'll probly come up with an old pic of that too!

My personal preference is don't.  Mr Sarpolous is a great designer in my eyes, dont get me wrong about that.  But to get the Wild Goose to fly well you have to have leadout guides ahead of the leading edge of the inboard wing and the leadouts enter slots in the leading edge.  The leadouts then act as turbulators for the inboard wing only and subtract strength in your leading edge stock.

That is one reason I always use the swept forward wing or the stager wing configuration you saw in my previous pictures.

If I remember the Wild Goose is old enough for classic, so if that is your goal - go for it.  Otherwise I suggest a different design.

Just my opinion though - Eddie

PS - I also don't like the idea of flaps on a canard.  It detracts from the main good flying characteristic of the canard i. e. no tail drop when doing a square maneuver  -  the airplane just follows the canard.
Later - Eddie

Ahem...

quote--"there's a guy here whose canards seem to fly OK"

That one.

Occum's Razor seems like a nice design. Putting the prop and engine on a gas model was problematic. But electric make it a breeze.
Question is how big and what size prop ?

Occum's Razor seems like a nice design. ...
Question is how big and what size prop ?

The only tech detail I can find about the Occam's Razor is that it first had a 1/2A engine. I am sure I've seen a picture of wing for a bigger one but I cannot find it now.

They are more like line drawings (full sized).  I made mine with foam wings so you would have to cut the cores or extrapolate ribs from the center and tips.  

I do have a set of instructions written and a powerpoint slide show showing most of the construction (at least to the point of where I am right now).

If you want to, you can post your instructions and drawings here ... unless you want to publish them in a magazine, or something.

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If you go into details about your canards, it would surely be worth a separate thread, either in the Open  or the Stunt design area.

That's good, no problems.  I'm enjoying seeing the pictures.  Occam's Razor is a real good looking plane.

   Sorry to all for going so farrrrrr off topic - I was just thrilled that someone else was playing with canards...

The only design that I have that would work with a .35 is the Trooper design that was made for a .25 but would work for a .35.  Unfortunately, no plans for that one, just sketches and measurements from my designing days..

And my bad on saying the Wild Goose is Classic - I got planes mixed up - I think the Wild Goose was late 70's maybe '78...

Later - Ed

The only tech detail I can find about the Occam's Razor is that it first had a 1/2A engine. I am sure I've seen a picture of wing for a bigger one but I cannot find it now.

Bob Hunt was showing his Occam's Razors at Brodak 2000. At that time the small one was sporting a NORVEL (AME .049, I think). He felt that placing the tank near the C/G would allow it to fly the same as the tank emptied, if I remember the conversation correctly. He also had a larger one (~.35 size, if I remember correctly). Shortly after that, I believe he started using electric power. Not sure if he went any further with the larger 'Razor.

George