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The Bugatti 100P Project
The name Bugatti stands for fast blue racing cars and stately automobiles. But the company was also into airplanes. In 1937 Ettore Bugatti became aware of war clouds above Europe and persuaded the French government to fund an aircraft that should be capable to win one of the many air races of that period. A military version could then follow later. Alas, due to the outbreak of war the project -called the 100P- came to nothing. The plane was stored on Bugatti’s estate outside Paris where it remained throughout the war. The Bugatti 100P survived intact and was largely forgotten, until the late 1960s when it was brought to the United States where it is now in the AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin as a static display. In 2009 a group of enthusiasts started building a replica of the 100P, one that should be able to fly! It will be displayed at the Oshkosh Museum this July and will be brought to Europe in 2012.
(B&W photo courtesy Bugatti Trust)
Gepubliceerd:
zondag juli 17th, 2011
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Michael Rose
19 Juli 2011, 07:16
Ettore's eye occasionally ruled his engineering acumen, as in the non-constant velocity front wheel drive joints which would've made the T53 such a dog on corners... and the mind boggles at the thought that the driveshaft design in his plane might well have concealed a major disaster.
The universal joints absolutely must be CV type.... but vastly more important would be the imperative need to deal with enormous torsional vibrations. The few designers of aircraft who use a shaft to couple engine to propellor have invariably discovered that major parts breakage always results if the torsional oscillation aren't suitably balanced.
I'd be intrigued to see Bugatti's own joint designs.... but it is a great relief to know that the brave team building the 100P replica have all the info to address this problem.
Molt Taylor fitted off-the-shelf Dynaflex couplings...although more recent microlight constructors have found out that in wanting to buy a D-flex device, they absolutely must not mention the word "aircraft" or the litigation-averse sales staff ignore them comnpletely....