Bristol Coanda Monoplanes

The Bristol Coanda Monoplanes were a series of monoplane trainers designed by the Romanian Henri Coanda for the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, built from 1912 with both tandem and side by side cockpits. Coanda's first Bristol design, a development of the Bristol Prier Monoplane, was a two seat trainer controlled by wing warping, and its first prototype flew in March 1912. Competition Monoplanes were entered in a competition to provide aircraft for the British War Office, where they rated equal fifth, and were then bought as trainers for the Royal Flying Corps. Italy and Romania also bought them, and one example survives in the Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics in Trento, Italy.