However, the forward surfaces of an aircraft in flight experience dynamic pressure in addition to the static pressure.
The canard configuration is designed so that the forward surface stalls before the main wing, making the aircraft unstallable and also unspinnable.
The fundamental requirement for static stability is that the aft surface have greater leverage in restoring a disturbance than the forward surface have in exacerbating it.
Leda led him forward and they sat down in a transparent bubble on the forward surface.
In his mind's eye he saw the ignited plasma trail flared out behind the shuttlecraft, likely washing over the forward surface of their pursuer's ship.
Cherrill Street was one long series of angular bay windows in dirty red brick, their forward surface almost scraping the low red-brick wall that hemmed them in from the pavement.
When a 3D model, with its hidden lines removed, is rotated about an axis, only the forward surface remains in sight.
Aryz raised the upper globe of his body, with its five silicate eyes arranged in a cross along the forward surface.
Wind hit both sails' forward surfaces, and the Gal took a stern-board.
Cousland's Flying Fortress encountered severe hail, damaging all the forward surfaces of the plane, and ice caused a temporary shutdown of one engine.