but there's a type of plane that incorporates something different: Canards. A canard is a wing that is fixed before the main wings, and they've been around since the beginning of air travel.

As The War Zone noted, for an aircraft “optimized for low observability (stealth), range, payload, and speed” and “not maneuverability” the inclusion of canards would be a “surprise.” ...

The next example was the F-22 Raptor, with a fictional delta-wing aircraft with canards showed by Lockheed Martin throughout the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition. Only in 1990, when the YF-22 ...