1/48 Bugatti 100 Racer

Description

This is an injection-plastic aircraft model kit.

The Bugatti 100P is a racing airplane planned by the automobile manufacturer Bugatti in France in 1938.

Ettore Bugatti, the founder of Bugatti, started designing the 100P with Louis de Monge as chief designer in order to win the “Deutsch de la Moult Cup” air race in 1940.

However, the aircraft was not completed in time to meet the September 1939 deadline for applications to participate in the race.

When World War II broke out, the 100P was hidden in a barn in the countryside. After the war, it was rediscovered and is now on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum in the United States.

Although the aircraft never actually flew, a project to build a replica of the 100P was started in 2009, and the first flight took place in 2015.

The fuselage is an all-wood monoplane made of balsa wood and layered hardwood, with a forward wing and a V-shaped tail with air intakes on the leading edge.

The landing gear is retractable legs, and the engines are two Bugatti’s own Type 50C engines (450 hp), mounted in the fuselage behind the cockpit, driving a double-rotating propeller in the nose.

The maximum speed in the plan was planned to be approximately 805 km/h.

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