Bugatti - REVE BLEU - the "Blue Dream" will finally fly!
 

Global volunteer group recreates Bugatti's "Blue Dream" more than 70 years after the unfinished plane was hidden behind enemy lines.

Get this, two engines driving props in opposite direction!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects.../posts/1314961

Poor ol' barely-remembered Louis de Monge. Bugatti himself was poorly treated by France post-war as he declined into senility.

Amazing looking aircraft, can't believe it is 70 years plus

Story and lots more pics here:

Bugatti Aircraft Association - News

Lovely looking aircraft but it will not be welcome at many airfields due to the noise from those counter rotating props. Those who remember the Fairey Gannet will recognise the noise.

There's one on youtube - real buzz saw there! Rather like Harvard or Gee Bee.

Fascinating and beautiful plane, which I did not know about, thanks for posting. Does the pilot use his or her armpit as an additional bearing for the prop shaft?

Both armpits - there are two shafts! :eek:

I had no idea about a bugatti a/c!! how does a dual prop going opposite directions actually help then? I would have thought it would be trying to pull the a/c in opposite directions causing an imbalance? Also could the front of the aircraft have a 2nd person in potentially??

Regards

Speedbird

Absolutely gorgeous!
Can't wait to see it fly.

Dual contra-rotating props should cancel each other's torque and provide a uniform slipstream.

Henry, I assumed one shaft rotated inside the other!

Lovely aircraft bugatti
 

Beautiful lines, fascinating structure;but three questions
Forward visibility?.
Crash survivability?
Loss of power on either motor leading to loss of elevator and rudder response?
OK Lets go!

Titanium Engines
 

Does anyone know if the original 50B engines for this aircraft have been found somewhere? I understand they had a titanium case. Only two built?

The aircraft in OSH has no engines. At some point EAA was trying to locate them, but without success. The engines could be anywhere in France, in a barn or even inside two old Bugatti cars? Any update on this?

"Lovely looking aircraft but it will not be welcome at many airfields due to the noise from those counter rotating props. Those who remember the Fairey Gannet will recognise the noise. "


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmUBGGCZhc

I'm struggling to think of any other aircraft with a twin-mid-engined, contra-prop configuration (apart from the XB-42, but that was a pusher).

Any offers?

Beautiful looking aircraft, I want one.

Struggling seems to be the word! Struggling to move and also to stop!:ooh:

OAP

Bugatti aeroplane
 

Macchi-Castoldi MC72. Still holds the propeller seaplane speed record 440mph in 1934 and what's more it is still around.