Le Canard enchaîné Le Canard enchaîné Le Canard enchaîné (; English: "The Chained Duck" or "The Chained Paper", as "canard" is French slang meaning "newspaper"), is a satirical weekly newspaper in France. Its headquarters is in Paris. Founded in 1915 during World War I, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and humorous cartoons. "Le Canard enchaîné" does not accept any advertisements and is privately owned, mostly by its own employees. The name is a reference to Radical Georges Clemenceau's newspaper "L'homme libre" ("The
Canard (aeronautics) NASA has also investigated a one-piece slewed equivalent called the conformably stowable canard, where as the surface is stowed one side sweeps backwards and the other forwards. The Rockwell B-1 Lancer has small canard vanes or fins on either side of the forward fuselage. They form part of an active damping system that reduces aerodynamic buffeting during high-speed, low altitude flight. Such buffeting would otherwise cause crew fatigue and reduce airframe life during prolonged flights. Canard aircraft can potentially have poor stealth characteristics because they present large, angular surfaces that tend to reflect radar signals forwards. The Eurofighter Typhoon uses