Angling canards sounds like borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Not sure of what the effect would be, and the effect could be dramatically different at different airspeed. You may cause more problems than you fix. so, like those rockets, which are stable during active boost/thrust, but then go unstable during coast..
Here's how I see it. The drag from those pods will induce an upward pitch torque. If it's as drastic as I suspect, something must be done about it. A slight cant to the canards, slanting down to the front, will create a downward pitch touque to counter that created by the pods. I too was concerned about airspeed sensitivity; so, as I said, I checked and found that that both effects are proportional to the square of the speed, and therefore they are proportional to each other, and that's just what's needed.
As is, it has finage both horizontal and vertical, which is all you need to keep it stable (assuming the asymmetric drag is either dealt with or has been exaggerated by me). The lack of a ventral fin gives it a large yaw-roll coupling, which something real aeroplanes face as well. (The main reason that planes don't have ventral tail fins is that they would hit the ground when the nose is up for takeoff and landing.)
That, I ike. Or I would, if I were going to build this, which I'm most probably not. (I feel myself becoming defensive, which there's no reason for, and can only lead in a bad direction, so I'll mostly bow out now.)
He does seem to like putting engines in relatively silly and impractical locations. That tends to ping my BS-meter, even though many of my own designs have ridiculous aspects to them as well.
