Bugatti Veyron rebuild - yes it's an aircraft!

[fatmal]

A team of engineers is building a replica Bugatti 100P - the original Veyron! Designed by Ettore Bugatti for air-racing, it was expected to reach 500mph - in the 1930's!

 

Living in France at the outbreak of WWII, Bugatti pulled the unflown prototype apart and hid it in barns across France, to stop Ze Chermans getting a hold of the technology.

 

Info at http://bugatti100p.com/bugatti-100p.html & http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wwii-fighter-jet-bugatti-100p-superplane-reconstructed-after-75-years-video-1438415

 

Personally, I think the forward swept wings and rear CofG would have made it quite unstable - unless you were flying backwards!

 

Mal

 

 

[spacesailor]

I think all the fastest planes were unstable.

 

A canard too is a bit of a worry on the first test flight.

 

spacesailor

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

A lot of us here have been following the 101p for quite some time now. Many contributed to the cause as well. I picked up the t shirt at airventure 2011. Almost ready to fly.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

A lot of us here have been following the 101p for quite some time now. Many contributed to the cause as well. I picked up the t shirt at airventure 2011. Almost ready to fly.

In fact a few of us can boast that we part-own a Bugatti! (Porsches and Beemers are common as muck these days.)

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

cool t shirt, regret not buying more hot item to swap.

 

 

 

[ozbear]

Those prop drive shafts would make life interesting if they or their cv joints failed

 

 

[rgmwa]

Those prop drive shafts would make life interesting if they or their cv joints failed

What prop drive shafts? According to the photo caption, it's a jet: "A group of airplane enthusiasts have rebuilt the Bugatti 100P, an advanced fighter jet from 1940", so I assume those props on the nose are just for the wind-driven generators.

 

rgmwa

 

 

[ozbear]

No I think their for making cakes the worlds biggest kitchen wiz with contra rotating blades.the Germans didn't really need it they were developing the DO335 pfeil or Arrow

 

 

[PA.]

What prop drive shafts? According to the photo caption, it's a jet: "A group of airplane enthusiasts have rebuilt the Bugatti 100P, an advanced fighter jet from 1940", so I assume those props on the nose are just for the wind-driven generators.rgmwa

The plane has two engines each driving a shaft to a propeller.

 

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

follow here

 

https://www.facebook.com/TheBugatti100pProject

 

 

[rgmwa]

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Thanks PA, although I already knew that. Just having a dig at the embarrassing ignorance of the press.

 

Even sent them a donation a while ago. I think I now own one of the wing ribs (made from Qld timber, I believe).

 

rgmwa