CS-9 — flaps full: what the canard flaps are for

Whole-aircraft RANS at the aircraft definition's own full-flap detent — wing flaps 30°, canard flaps 25°, ganged on one lever as designed. Two configurations at matched mesh: coordinated (canard on, both flap sets down) and orphaned (canard deleted, wing flaps down). Traces are coloured by the induced vertical velocity — the aircraft's own disturbance — so undisturbed air reads neutral and only the wake shows. The nose arrow is the measured hands-off pitching moment at zero elevator — positive is NOSE-DOWN in the flap campaign's convention, so it points down: a tick while the ganged lever cancels it, a large pitch-down impetus once the canard is deleted. The callout at the tail points at the elevators and prices the moment in their currency: degrees to trim, and — canard-off — the aft down-force the surfaces must hold against the pitch-down (ledger numbers, quoted to the degree — 30° of flap separates the flow, so all flapped solves sit at the iteration cap).
The streak paths are the computed flow. The shimmer is stylistic — a steady solve carries no turbulence to animate — so its amplitude is tied to the local vertical velocity, meaning disturbed air visibly jitters more than clean air.

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hands-off pitch-DOWN impetus, elevator 0 elevator to trim

At this state (elevator 0)

Lift coefficient CL
Drag coefficient CD
Pitching moment Cm
Elevator to trim

Elevator left in reserve

Elevator to trim vs angle of attack

At α 0 with the elevator untouched, the coordinated configuration's total pitching moment is +0.0001 — the ganged lever cancels the wing flaps' moment essentially exactly. Delete the canard and trim swallows the elevator: 28.3° of 30° by α 12, with the flare still to fly.
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