Canard (aeronautics) flown, including the Ambrosini SS.4, Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender and Kyūshū J7W1 "Shinden". These were attempts at using the canard configuration to give advantages in areas such as performance, armament disposition or pilot view, but no production aircraft were completed. The Shinden was ordered into production "off the drawing board" but hostilities ceased before any other than prototypes had flown. Just after the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, what may have been the first canard designed and flown in the Soviet Union appeared as a test aircraft, the lightweight Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8 "Utka" (Russian for "duck"). It was
Le Canard enchaîné Eye", it has its own language, jargon and style. In particular, it has nicknames for politicians and personalities. Some examples include: , the publisher of the "Canard" was Michel Gaillard, and the head editors were Claude Angeli and Erik Emptaz. The "Canard"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s cartoonists include: Past cartoonists included: It also publishes a quarterly magazine, "Les Dossiers du Canard", dedicated to one subject, usually one affecting French society, or world events as seen from a French perspective. On 3 December 1973, policemen of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST), disguised as plumbers, were caught trying to install a spy microphone in the