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In 1938, Ettore Bugatti sought the help of his chief engineer Louis de Monge, to do something the pair had never tried before building an airplane and not just an airplane, a screamingly fast runner capable of beating its counterparts in the most prestigious air race Deutchland Cup Deutsch And they did almost as well.
The 100P model Bugatti designed was the SR-71 aircraft of its day with a laughably advanced beyond the current state of the technology art measuring a large 25 feet long with a wingspan of 27 feet, the 100P His fueselage and swept wings were formed from multilayer laminate wood sandwiching balsa and hardwoods a manufacturing technique still widely used today, but virtually unheard of in the 1940s.
The 100P was exceptionally simplified thanks to its revolutionary design of the motor in line, wherein the pair of the 100P 4 9L, 450HP, racing cars engines 8 cylinders are positioned behind the cockpit which resulted a pair Accessories of rotation against It also includes a 102 degree V-tail, a drag zero cooling system that ejects air from the trailing edges of the wings, and computer flight control realized which automatically changed the profile wing to generate additional lift and reduce drag and acting as an air brake when removing dives Even the automatic landing gear took control of the computer system of the aircraft.
The speed record in 1939 was at 469 mph set by a German Messerschmitt had 100P stolen in 1940 in the Coupe Deutsch, calculation suggests that it would have exceeded 500 mph However, the 100P has never stolen in 1940 , having just missed the entry deadline in September 1939 due to manufacturing delays.
While this was a disappointment for Bugatti, the delay might have changed the outcome of World War II During development, the French government learned of the project and approached Bugatti with an offer to use technology for a new highly maneuverable light combat aircraft -Weight he refused, but as the second world war erupted When Germany invaded France in 1940, he became a very real chance that the Germans could learn and grasp the 100P, using technology as their own war machine to decimate the Allied fleet, Spitfires and everything.
The Superplane 500 MPH Bugatti had to hide from the Nazis, bugatti.