# Why did American fighter-jet designers never go for canards?

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**Created:** [September 16, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-american-fighter-jet-designers-never-go-for-canards/950734 "2021-09-16T04:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-american-fighter-jet-designers-never-go-for-canards/950734/26 "2021-09-20T14:50:01Z")

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Heh…I actually [referenced the Noviplano as the aircraft equivalent of C++](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-relationship-between-c-and-c/950446/43). It seems incomprehensible that someone believed that would be a reliable flying aircraft, but then people had a lot of really strange ideas in the 1920s.

Stranger

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