Engineering:Antoinette IV
| Antoinette IV | |
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| Antoinette IV in flight | |
| Role | Experimental aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Antoinette |
| Designer | Léon Levavasseur |
| First flight | 19 October 1908 |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Number built | 1 |
The Antoinette IV was an early France monoplane.
Design and development
The 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
General 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)
Performance
See also
- 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
- ↑ "Flying Triumphs of the Monoplane.". Bunbury Herald (Western Australia) XIX (3180): p. 3. 15 July 1909. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87147951. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ "CROSSING THE CHANNEL.". The Brisbane Courier (Queensland, Australia) LXVI (16,076): p. 5. 21 July 1909. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19590672. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ "MARVELS OF THE MONOPLANE". Kalgoorlie Miner (Western Australia) 15 (4312): p. 5. 26 July 1909. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90976991. Retrieved 8 April 2019., ...His monoplane, the Antoinette IV., was built to his. designs by M. Levasseur...
- ↑ "HUBERT LATHAM'S FEAT.". Evening Journal (South Australia) XLIII (11992): p. 2. 3 September 1909. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203445355. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ↑ 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.. http://earlyaviators.com/ethomren.htm.
- ↑ "Aeroplanes in Collision". Popular Mechanics (Hearst Magazines): 91. January 1911. https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd4DAAAAMBAJ.
- ↑ "The Milan Aviation Meeting, Italy, 1910.". Science Museum Pictorial. Science and Society Picture Library. 1910. http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10304784&wwwflag=2&imagepos=40. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ↑ "Continental Flight Meetings". Flight: 828–829. 8 October 1910. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1910/1910%20-%200830.html. "...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. pp. 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).
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