Bristol Prier monoplane

The Bristol Prier monoplane was an early British aircraft produced in a number of single seat and two seat versions. The Prier monoplanes were designed for the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company by Pierre Prier, the former chief pilot of the Bleriot school at Hendon, who joined Bristol in July 1911. They resembled the successful Bleriot XI, with a fabric covered wire braced wooden fuselage and parallel chord wings using wing warping, and were powered by a 50 hp Gnome rotary engine. One was shown at the 1911 Paris Aero Salon, the only British aircraft there. Demonstration flights in Madrid and Germany led Bristol to start a German subsidiary, and the type was used mostly for training and racing.