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World War II: France
French aircraft of WWII
Hosted by Rowan Baylis
WW2 Bugatti design
flitzer
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Posted: Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:08 AM UTC
Hi all
a bit of a one off...
Interesting story behind the P100 racer.
It was in prototype stage when the Germans took France and the plane was hidden for the duration of the war.
It is now in USA in the hands of a group of enthusiasts who are restoring it and hope to have her flying one day.

Bugatti 110P Fighter
Type 100 info and pics here:
http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/
http://www.bugattiaircraft.com/kalempa.htm

At the time it was reported a Fighter version was planned, the P110 and this is my interpretation of how it may have looked. I've made a slight mistake in that the guns need moving outboard more as they would hit the prop blades, unless disrupter gear was incorporated.





Cheers
Peter
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Posted: Monday, April 02, 2007 - 06:19 PM UTC
Interesting little story and nice colour profiles.

Funny to see a French "what if" machine. Must have been difficult to check the "6" with the cockpit flush with the fuselage.

Thanks for sharing
alpha_tango
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Posted: Monday, April 02, 2007 - 06:52 PM UTC
Nice one Peter!

Hey Jean-Luc ... time to finish your model!!!

cheers

Steffen
P:S. here is the link to Jean-Luc's scratch build: Bugatti 100P
flitzer
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Posted: Friday, April 06, 2007 - 04:21 PM UTC
I completely missed Jean-Luc's scratch build P100.
I ws in-between countries so to speak at the time.

And as it was November 2005...."Jean-Luc; get your skates on."
Steffen is right...you should finish it....

Beautiful work as usual from J-L.
Would really love to see more.

And if you still have the moulds....how about a P110 Conversion???

Cheers
Peter
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