Kevin Brooks wrote:
Eunometic wrote:

This Messerschmitt P.1011 "Ente" proposal is a clear canard designe:
http://www.luft46.com/mess/meente.html

So clearly Messerschmitt were aware of the advantages a canard
offered.

Wow. And only what, forty years or so after the Wright bothers used a
canard?

Rats! You beat me to it ...