The 500 MPH Superplane That Bugatti Had To Hide From The Nazis

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This is the Bugatti Model 100P: A 900 HP, 500 MPH, race plane imagined by none other than legendary automotive designer Ettore Bugatti, so technologically advanced that it could have single-handedly dominated the skies of WWII for Germany, had the Nazis ever gotten their hands on it.

But after more than seven decades of obscurity in a French barn, the 'Veyron of the Skies' is ready to finally take flight for the first time.