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A canard is an aeronautical arrangement wherein a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. The term canard may be used to describe the aircraft itself, the wing configuration or the foreplane. Despite the use of a canard surface on the first powered aeroplane, the Wright Flyer of 1903, canard designs were not built in quantity until the appearance of the Saab Viggen jet fighter in 1967.
The French phrase means, literally, to half-sell ducks. No one now knows just what was meant by to half-sell; the proverb was probably based on some story widely known at the time, but the details have not survived. At any rate, the expression led to the use of canard, the French word for duck, with the meaning a hoax or a fabrication.. English speakers adopted this canard in the mid-1800s. The aeronautical sense of canard, used from the early days of flying, comes from the stubby duck-like appearance of the aircraft. Origin and Etymology of canard French, literally, duck; in sense 1, from Medieval French vendre des canards Ã  moitiÃ© to cheat, literally, to half-sell ducks