Bristol P.B.8

The Bristol P.B.8, or Bristol-Coanda P.B.8, was an early British built, Romanian designed two seat biplane trainer made by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1914. Henri Coanda, chief designer at Bristol, developed it to replace the Boxkite at the Bristol flying school at Brooklands, and it was the only biplane he designed. It was a small equal span biplane with ailerons on both wings, two tandem seats in a small cockpit nacelle and the unusual four wheel undercarriage of other Coanda designs, with an 80 hp Gnome Lambda engine at the rear driving a pusher propeller. Only one was completed, delivered to Brooklands in July 1914, and it never flew because its engine was requisitioned by the War Office.