Aviation Buffs...Barn find; Bugatti 100P Replica

[Brad_Blazer]

In this video, he compares the tail to the "modern" Bonanza. The 2 aircraft were designed about 5 years apart. Bugatti not ready to fly in 1939, Beechcraft prototype flew in 1945.
The most elegant airplane that never flew - YouTube

 

[2LaneCruzer]

In this video, he compares the tail to the "modern" Bonanza. The 2 aircraft were designed about 5 years apart. Bugatti not ready to fly in 1939, Beechcraft prototype flew in 1945.
The most elegant airplane that never flew - YouTube

Here's another article with a bit more technical data.

Bugatti Aircraft Association - News

 

[westcliffe01]

Hope this does not end up like the Hughes racer replica. It flew to Oshkosh for the EAA convention, (I photographed it there on the ramp) then had trouble on the way home and crash landed and was totally destroyed and pilot killed.