Bristol Coanda Monoplanes
The Bristol Coanda Monoplanes were a series of monoplane trainers designed by the Romanian designer Henri Coandă for the British company British and Colonial Aeroplane Company.
Bristol Coanda Monoplanes
A Bristol Coanda in 1912
Monument in Wolvercote, Oxfordshire to Lieutenants Edward Hotchkiss and Claude Bettington, killed in a Bristol Coanda crash in 1912
A Bristol Coanda in 1912
Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910, which never flew. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
Coandă at a meeting with Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1967
Coandă-1910 airplane with the turbo-propulseur on separate display
1912 Bristol-Coanda monoplane
A 1982 stamp and postcard of Romania dedicated to Coandă