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Add canard pusher aircraft icon (VELO, LGEZ, VEZE, COZY)#289

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Add canard pusher aircraft icon (VELO, LGEZ, VEZE, COZY)#289
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What

Adds a canard marker shape — a top-view canard pusher silhouette (foreplane forward, swept main wing with winglets aft, pusher prop spinner) — and maps the common canard type designators to it in TypeDesignatorIcons:

  • VELO (Velocity)
  • LGEZ (Rutan Long-EZ)
  • VEZE (Rutan VariEze)
  • COZY (Cozy)

Why

These aircraft currently fall through to conventional shapes (or the category default) that don't resemble their planform at all. Canards are common in the experimental/homebuilt fleet, and the reversed configuration is distinctive enough that the generic single-prop silhouette reads wrong on the map.

Notes

  • Follows the existing marker conventions: cls-1 fill path + cls-2 outline path, add_stroke_selected, aircraft_color_fill/aircraft_color_stroke placeholders, alphabetical placement in shapes and TypeDesignatorIcons.
  • Proportions are drawn from the Velocity's published planform (~31 ft span vs ~20 ft length).
  • License: this is original artwork created for this contribution (not derived from any existing icon set). I am happy to contribute it under the BSD 2-Clause license, consistent with the provenance of the existing markers, or under GPL v2+ with the rest of the project — whichever the maintainers prefer.

Preview (rendered with placeholder colors substituted):
the shape renders correctly with both the fill and outline paths layered, verified in-browser and via the same color-substitution pipeline markers.js uses.

Canard-configuration aircraft (Velocity, Long-EZ, VariEze, Cozy)
currently fall through to conventional shapes that don't resemble
their planform. Add a top-view canard pusher silhouette — foreplane
forward, swept main wing with winglets aft, pusher prop spinner —
and map the common canard type designators to it.

Original artwork, contributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.
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