I love love love seeing “futuristic” material created in the 1930’s.  Something about the flights of fancy (pardon the pun) of that epoch really hits me.  From the art deco designs to the futuristic musings of authors and artists, there’s a reason that era’s sci-fi works were considered a “golden age”.

Back in 1938 Ettore Bugatti and Louise De Monge designed a futuristic aircraft that, because of the advent of World War II, never made it beyond a single model that was created and never flown before being cut up and hidden from the Nazi’s.

However, though never flown the model was not forgotten and a model has been created and shown to fly and a full sized replica created, which will be flown very soon, and you can read all about it in the article below, found on kotaku.com and written by Luke Plunkett…

The 1938 Aircraft That Came From The Future

In that link you’ll see images of both the full sized replica as well as see a video of the smaller model in flight.  I won’t post both here, but I will post this beautiful painting of the plane in flight as envisioned by an artist…

Great, great stuff.