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 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]
^"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.
^"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.
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World Aircraft Information Files. Brightstar Publishing: London. File 889 Sheet 63.