Bugatti model 100

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by hatsudoki

Orcberto offers a simple 1/200th papermodel Bugatti 100 here.

And there's quite a few other atractive models on the Orcberto site too ...
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean like?.

I resisted ... 'er indoors has started taking an interest in what I'm making since I started on the Xmas stuff, but the 'Gladiator' just might get slipped into the archives for another day, like!

Johnny.

[richkat]

Check out this RC Bugatti 100......Rich
RC Bugatti Airplane Test Flight - YouTube

[Sakrison]

The EAA's restored Bugatti is on permanent exhibit in the AirVenture Museum at Oshkosh. Curator Ron Twellman was kind enough to allow me to photograph the airplane close up.

I've attached a couple of my photos. Any designer who wants to take a stab at this one-of-a-kind aircraft is welcome to all the images I have.

The drive shafts from the two V-16 engines to the counter-rotating props ran through either side of the narrow cockpit just under the pilot's elbows. It would have been a wild ride.

-- David

[Sakrison]

All 115 photos that I took of the Bugatti 100 aircraft are now on Photobucket at Bugatti 100 Racer Photos by Sakrison | Photobucket.
Have fun!
--David

[Formerly Styrene]

Wow, I have just been researching this plane for future use as an element in a story. What a complete break with convention of the time, twin engines mounted amidships, counter-rotating props, forward swept wings, cooling vents in the front edges of the elevator, Oh and completely unconventional rear empennage - V shaped elevators and the rudder beneath.

This airplane was a thing of beauty and would have been faster than greased lightening. As a fighter with two 30mm cannon in the wing roots and a cannon firing down the hollow prop shaft as originally envisioned it would have have made a fantastic air supremacy fighter, hands down.

Too bad it wasn't re-discovered until the jet-age began. It conjures up one of those "what if" questions, like if the French had 50 or more of these babies for the Nazi invasion of France, who knows?
BTW fantastic pics, Sakrison!

Formerly Styrene

aka David

[Yale]

Thanks so very much for your photos, Sakrison. It's truly a marvellous and advanced design; as Formerly mentions, it inspires all sorts of "what-if" questions. And the EAA people deserve lots of praise, too, for their beautiful restoration efforts. But in the pictures the seat and other interior parts seem to be made of plastic. Could the Bugatti people also have been pioneers of new materials, or are these parts really painted aluminum?

[Sakrison]

Originally Posted by Yale

in the pictures the seat and other interior parts seem to be made of plastic. Could the Bugatti people also have been pioneers of new materials, or are these parts really painted aluminum?

Yale,
That's a question for the curator, Ron Twellman. You can email him at [email protected]. If you can't reach him, try the Librarian Susan Lurvey, [email protected]. Mention my name, Ron and Susan know me well. It was Ron who got me into the Bugatti to take the photos.
--David

[murphyaa]

It's got a lot of curves that are difficult to capture in paper...

[Mark Petersen]

Regarding the proposed P110. This is a qoute from "A History of Aircraft Piston Engines" by Herschel Smith "In any case it is hard to see how any reasonable person could have seriously considered putting any Bugatti design into volume production." This was in regards to his straight 8 and U-16 aero engine. Personally I think Harry Miller was more talented http://www.milleroffy.com/Racing%20History.htm

[whulsey]

As much as I like Bugatti's, Mark have to pretty much agree with you concerning Miller especially mechanically.