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The vertical stabilizer is to provide additional anti torque force to the fuselage once the aircraft has forward motion and airflow across the lifting surface. The design makes use of forward motion and the resulting airflow to create an anti torq...
1 Directional stability: The distance from the aircraft c.g. to the most aft part of the airplane is usually smaller on canard aircraft. 2  This poses a problem for locating a vertical stabilizer and may result in very large vertical surfaces.