The Canard was, even by the standards of 1910, a curiously regressive design, its layout reminiscent of
Alberto Santos-Dumont's
14-bis of 1906. As first flown at
Issy-les-Moulineaux by
Maurice Colliex, the aircraft had an uncovered fuselage of wire-braced wood construction with the Rossel-Peugeot rotary engine at the rear and the front-mounted control surfaces consisting of an all-moving elevator divided into two halves, one either side of the fuselage, a rectangular balanced rudder mounted above the elevator, and a pair of short-span fixed horizontal surfaces with a high angle of attack mounted behind and below the elevators. Voisin's characteristic side-curtains were fitted to the outermost pair of interplane struts and roll control was achieved using trailing-edge ailerons on both upper and lower wings. The aircraft was judged a success and Voisin manufactured a number of examples. There are variations between the individual production aircraft: the two examples flown in the French military aircraft trials in 1911 had a wingspan of .; one was powered by a Renault and the second by a Gnome. The number of sets of side curtains varied, some aircraft having two or even three sets. ==Seaplane version==