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 the 1920s. Its current owners are not tied to any political or economic group. It now avoids any political alignment, and has gained a reputation for publishing incriminating stories and criticizing any political party with no preference. It is also fairly anti-clerical and lampoons the nobility. The "Canard" does not accept any advertisements. In the 1920s, it used to advertise for free "Le Crapouillot", another satirical magazine created by Jean Galtier-Boissière, a friend of Maurice Maréchal. Similarly, "Le Crapouillot" carried free advertisements for the "Canard". Relations between the two magazines soured during the Spanish Civil War as Maréchal supported the