Buggati

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Bugatti, known for elegant car designs, also created the Model 100 airplane.
  • The Model 100 was a racing aircraft.
  • The original Model 100 was destroyed in a fatal crash, but a reproduction now exists.
  • A Model 100 is on display at the EAA Air Museum.
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The maker of some of the most elegant auto designs ever built a plane that’s remarkably beautiful in its own right, the Model 100. The racer, which didn’t fly until a reproduction took to the air in the 2010s. The only example was destroyed in a fatal crash in 2016. An example is on display at the EAA Air Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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