Consider it a technology tragedy of World War II. Designed in the 1930s by legendary carmaker Ettore Bugatti, the 100p Bugatti was a propeller-driven passenger plane that in theory boasted a speed of 500 mph. Abandoned as the war began, the incomplete plane was never flown. A Kickstarter project that closed in 2013 raised enough money to build a working reproduction of the plane, and take it to the sky. It's dubbed the “Blue Dream,” and it looks like an alternate history of flight:
The Bugatti 100p has successfully taxied, with an expectation of a flight soon. While it's hard to imagine the plane having a worse record than its predecessor, the latest backers-only Kickstarter update is titled “First Flight Video Problems.” Here's hoping that's problems with the video, and not the flight itself.