Voisin Canard Voisin Canard The Voisin Canard was an aircraft developed by Voisin brothers during 1910 and first flown early in 1911. It was named the "Canard" because of the resemblance of its forward fuselage to that of a duck's long neck while in flight. It was originally flown as a landplane: with the addition of floats it became one of the first seaplanes used by the French Navy. The Canard was, even by the standards of 1910, a curiously regressive design, its layout reminiscent of Alberto Santos-Dumont's 14-bis of 1906. As first flown at Issy-les-Moulineaux by , the aircraft had an
Le Canard enchaîné Spanish Republican government of Madrid, whilst Galtier-Boissière remained strictly pacifist. The "Canard" and its format served as an inspiration for the satirical weekly magazine "El Be Negre", published in Barcelona between 1931 and 1936. The "Canard" has a fixed eight-page layout. Pages 1, 2–4 and 8 are mostly news and editorials. Page 2 carries anecdotes from the political and business world. Pages 5–7 are dedicated to social issues (such as the environment), profiles, general humour and satire, and literary, theatre, opera and film criticism. One section, called "l'Album de la Comtesse", is dedicated to spoonerisms. The "Canard" is notable because