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
Canard PC video games critics panel on a French network that they did not like scoring very much, but they felt they had to put them for their reviews because gamers wanted them. In July 2003, some editors left the publishing staff of the French gaming monthly "Joystick" after its acquisition by Future Publishing. They founded "Canard PC" in the following months. The magazine is edited by "Presse Non-Stop", a company owned at 75% by the editors themselves, specifically created for Canard PC. Canard PC Canard PC is an independent magazine founded in France in 2003 devoted to PC gaming and published