Video Of The Milestone Flight Posted To Facebook

After suffering a setback on the first flight of a replica Bugatti 100p airplane in August, the unique art-deco airplane's second flight was 100% successful, with a trip around the patch at Clinton-Sherman Airport in Clinton, OK.

According to The Bugatti Project's Facebook page, the airplane successfully made a circuit of the traffic pattern on October 17 and posted video shot from a chase plane on the page.

The first flight of the airplane in August ... a short hop that reached only reached 100 feet AGL ... was marred by a mishap involving a failed brake that caused the airplane to veer off the runway after landing. The nose of the airplane sunk into soft ground caused by heavy rains and damaged the spinner and both props of the airplane. Earlier this month, the Project received and installed two new propellers from Rupert Wasey at Hercules Propellers.

Scott Wilson, John Lawson and Simon Birney of Le Reve Bleu began the effort to build the replica in 2009. The original airplane, built but never flown in the 1930s, was designed to  set a world speed record and to compete in the prestigious Coupe Deutsch air race.

(Image from The Bugatti 100p Project Facebook Page)

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