The Antoinette IV was an early French monoplane.
| Antoinette IV | |
|---|---|
 Antoinette IV in flight | |
| General information | |
| Type | Experimental aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Antoinette |
| Designer | |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| First flight | 19 October 1908 |
Design and development
editThe Antoinette IV was a high-wing aircraft with a fuselage of extremely narrow triangular cross-section and a cruciform tail. Power was provided by a V8 engine of Léon Levavasseur's own design driving a paddle-bladed tractor propeller. Lateral control was at first effected with large triangular, and shortly afterwards trapezoidal-planform ailerons hinged to the trailing edge of the wings, although wing-warping was substituted at an early stage in flight trials, and in this type proved more effective.
On 19 February 1909, the Antoinette IV flew 5 km (3.1 mi) at Mourmelon-le-Grand, and on 19 July, Hubert Latham attempted to cross the English Channel in it, covering 11 km (6.8 mi) out of Sangatte before making a forced water landing due to engine failure.[1][2][3][4]
On 3 October 1910, Frenchman René Thomas, flying the Antoinette IV, collided with British Army Captain Bertram Dickson by ramming his Farman III biplane in the rear.[5] Both pilots survived, but Dickson was so badly injured that he never flew again.[6][7][8]
Specifications
editGeneral characteristics
- Crew: one, pilot
- Length: 11.50 m (37 ft 9 in)
- Wingspan: 12.80 m (42 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 50 m2 (538 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 250 kg (550 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Antoinette 8V , 37 kW (50 hp)
See also
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- Gastambide-Mengin monoplane
- Antoinette III
- Antoinette V
- Antoinette VI
- Antoinette VII
- Antoinette military monoplane
- Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin, designer of a similar aircraft, 1910
Related lists List of aircraft (pre-1914)
References
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- ^ "Flying Triumphs of the Monoplane". Bunbury Herald. Vol. XIX, no. 3180. Western Australia. 15 July 1909. p. 3. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "CROSSING THE CHANNEL". The Brisbane Courier. Vol. LXVI, no. 16, 076. Queensland, Australia. 21 July 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "MARVELS OF THE MONOPLANE". Kalgoorlie Miner. Vol. 15, no. 4312. Western Australia. 26 July 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia., ...His monoplane, the Antoinette IV., was built to his. designs by M. Levasseur...
- ^ "HUBERT LATHAM'S FEAT". Evening Journal. Vol. XLIII, no. 11992. South Australia. 3 September 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Villard, Henry Serrano (1 January 1968). CONTACT! The Story of the Early Birds Man's first decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I. Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
- ^ "Aeroplanes in Collision". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Magazines. January 1911. p. 91.
- ^ "The Milan Aviation Meeting, Italy, 1910". Science Museum Pictorial. Science and Society Picture Library. 1910. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ "Continental Flight Meetings". Flight. 8 October 1910. pp. 828–829.
...the Antoinette monoplane crashed on to the biplane, both machines falling to earth a mass of broken planes and tangled wires.
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 63.
- World Aircraft Information Files. Brightstar Publishing: London. File 889 Sheet 63.
- Hubert Latham: Windkiller
- Hubert Latham
- "Antoinette VII un avión con historia" by Eloy Martin, 2013 (in Spanish).