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The Bugatti Aircraft Association publishes a bi-annual newsletter - Pegasus. This is available for members only, or on special request. Each issue is about 15-20 pages, A4 format.

Below is an overview of the content of all issues. Each issue is available for $4 or 3 Euro plus shipping.

All back issues can be downloaded here (BAA members only)

No. 1 August 1998

  • Editorial
  • Bugatti Aircraft Information on the Internet
  • The BAA World Record Attempt, By Alex Kalempa
  • Michael Firczuk's investigations into the 100P
  • BAA member's list

No. 2 March 1999

  • Editorial
  • The Bugatti 100 Airplane Odyssey, Michael Firczuk
  • Two old articles, provided by Alex Kalempa
  • BAA new members

No. 3 November 1999

  • Editorial
  • Bugatti Airplane Patents:
    • Patent specification of the Bugatti airplane (provided by Alex Kalempa)
    • Patents deposited by Ettore Bugatti for Bugatti 100. (Michel Hanser)
  • Bugatti Airplane Engine, Jaap Horst
  • BAA members

No. 4 July 2000

No. 5 December 2000

  • Editorial
  • Some more views of the plane, Ryan C. Bollig
  • Building a flying model, Ton Poppelaars
  • Full text of the American patent, Alex Kalempa
  • List of members

No. 6 June 2001

  • Editorial
  • A visit to the Musee de l´Air, Jaap Horst
  • An electric Bugatti, Tom Fey
  • The Koolhoven connection, Jaap Horst
  • A letter about the airplane from 1960, to Hugh Conway, Yves Macaire

No. 7 December 2001

  • Editorial
  • Up up and away, Barry Eaglesfield
  • Additional comments on the Breguet-Dorand helicopter
  • Questions to be answered, Jaap Horst
  • Miniature models, Pim Faber/Jaap Horst
  • Bugatti License engines, Jaap Horst
  • Members list

No. 8 July 2002

  • Editorial and news
  • Call for board members
  • More about Louis de Monge
  • letter from Ray Jones
  • The Bugatti Model 100 racer John R. Wright
  • The King Bugatti Robert B. Casari
  • Thoughts on the Bugatti Plane Michael Firczuk

No. 9 December / January 2002/3

  • Editorial
  • 1915 Dorand - Bugatti
  • Letter from Ed Swearingen
  • Bugatti speed potential Colin Loveday
  • Aero Engines Bugatti Trust
  • Bugatti 200 HP Aero Engine Bugatti Trust
  • Aero Engines Tim Cree/Bugatti Trust
  • The deMonge 5.1

No. 10, August 2003

  • Editorial and news
  • 4 cylinder Bugatti - King engine - part 2
  • Bugatti-engined WW1 aircraft
  • de Monge / Buscaylet experimental aircraft
  • A modern aeronautical engineer’s view
  • Duesenberg vs US
  • Variable pitch propellors and other patents
  • Jean Bugatti and aviation?

No. 11, March 2004

  • Editorial and news
  • More about de Monge
  • Overview of de Monge patents
  • Influence of the King-Bugatti on engine design
  • The Fisher P-75 Eagle
  • Breguet Multi-engine patents

No. 12, October 2004

  • Editorial and News
  • Results of a visit to the Mulhouse museum
  • Starting the engines of the Bugatti Airplane
  • The Breguet Dorand Helicopter
  • Ettore´s other Bugatti

No. 13, Spring 2005

  • Editorial and news
  • Post-war History
  • Martinotti variable pitch propeller
  • An Electric RC model
  • Engine Cooling on the Bugatti Airplane

No. 14, December 2005

  • Editorial and news
  • The coupling of engines, translated article from l´Air, 1921
  • 1919 Articles on the Bugatti US model aero - engine, part 1

No. 15, July 2006

  • Editorial and news
  • The Bugatti T67 1939 V16 Aero engine
  • 1919 Articles on the Bugatti US model aero-engine, part 2

No. 16, January 2007

  • Editorial and news
  • The Bugatti Revival Project
  • Le Pur-Sang des Bateaux (Part 1)
  • Additional info on the T67
  • Last part on the details of the King-Bugatti

No. 17, Summer 2007

  • Editorial and News
  • Le Pur-Sang des Bateaux (some extra info)
  • News on Bugatti Replica Projects
  • The Breguet (Brevet Bugatti) T32B
  • Bugattis Cannon patent from 1920

No. 18, Winter 2008

  • Editorial and News
  • Ettore Bugatti Sketches
  • Comparison of some photo’s
  • Plans for the BAA organisation
  • BAA Conference at Retromobile

No. 19, Summer 2008

  • Airplane drawings
  • 100P engine mounting blocks
  • New BAA website and file server
  • Interview with Louis de Monge
  • First results of the windtunnel tests
  • Fighter version of the 100P design

No. 20, Winter 2008/2009

  • Editorial and News
  • Letter from Scotty (Wilson)
  • Meeting of BAA—NL/BE
  • Early Bugatti Aviation history
  • Article on the 1914 deMonge airplane

No. 21, Summer 2009

  • Editorial and News
  • Jean Sibille Drawing
  • More on Louis deMonge
  • Cardboard miniature
  • More miniatures
  • First pictures of flying replica project
  • Spitfire—comic by BAA member Herb Trimpe

No. 22, Winter 2009/2010

  • Editorial and News
  • Findings on the Bugatti Airplane
  • The earliest aviation constructions of Louis deMonge
  • BAA Meeting in Brussels
  • More miniatures
  • Update on Scotty’s replica
  • Measurement of Unknown Airfoils - The Bugatti 100P
  • Les profils des Ailes, employés en aviation. Reprint of an article written in 1921 by Louis deMonge.

No. 23, Summer 2010

  • Editorial and News
  • Bugatti 100P Flap / Aileron Interconnection System (Flaperons)
  • Still more on starting of the engines!
  • New drawing of the airplane
  • Details about the Bugatti type 60 and 67 aero engines.
  • Dyle & Bacalan / SAB
  • More about Louis deMonge; letter from Thomas Foxworth

No. 24, Winter 2010/2011

  • Editorial and News
  • Bugatti 100P Thrust Bearing Structure
  • Popular Machanics article about the Breguet Leviathan
  • More about the Arsenal VB-10 - Latécoère 299A
  • Details from the contract
  • Latest about the build of the 100P replica
  • Original Parts from the 100P airplane, on loan from the EAA museum

No. 25, Summer 2011

  • Editorial and News
  • Update on Scotty Wilson’s replica 100P
  • The Breguet Airplanes - new photographs and info
  • Bugatti 100P structures
  • Airplane instruments

No. 26, Winter 2011/2012

  • Editorial and News
  • Considerations on the 100P’s centre of Gravity
  • Update on Scotty Wilson’s replica 100P
  • Bugatti Type 50B engine development
  • The de Monge 7.1

No. 27, Autumn 2012

  • Editorial and News
  • The Bugatti T67, Sylvain Vezier
  • Update on Scotty Wilson’s replica 100P
  • 1915 Dorand fighter
  • Exposition at the de Monge family castle
  • Cartoons by Jean-Rudolphe Dussart

No. 28, Spring 2013

  • Editorial and News + Bugatti 100P book
  • Locations of the 100P + new photo’s of de Monge designs
  • Ray Jones on the Bugatti 100P
  • Long shaft rear-engined aeroplanes
  • Update on Scotty Wilson’s replica 100P
  • Article about the 100P from l’Air, 1943
  • Detail photo’s of the Breguet H32 engine

No. 29, Autumn 2013

  • Editorial and News
  • A visit to the Ratier museum - Ladislas de Monge
  • Update on Scotty Wilson’s replica 100P
  • Louis De Monge vs Anthony Fokker - Frank van Dalen
  • Bugatti 100P Cockpit Instruments - Scotty Wilson
  • Le Quadri-moteur Breguet - Reprint of original brochure

No. 30, Spring 2014

  • Editorial and News
  • Request for Technical Assistance
  • Photographs of de Monge and Breguet airplanes
  • The Scotty Wilson Replica airplane at the Mullin museum
  • Reprint of Breguet Léviathan XII 4-page brochure

No. 31, Autumn 2014

  • Editorial and News
  • Advances in the completion of the Scotty Wilson Replica
  • 3 articles on flight characteristics of the Bugatti 100P - Mike Cavanaugh
  • Groupes Multimoteurs Breguet - 450 & 900 CV - Reprint of original Breguet Brochure

No. 32, Summer 2015

  • Editorial and News
  • Advances in the completion of the Scotty Wilson Replica
  • Post-war activities of Louis de Monge
  • Configurations of Convertible Aircraft, by Louis de Monge

No. 33, Autumn 2015

  • Editorial and News
  • Advances in the completion of the Scotty Wilson Replica
  • First Flight
  • A visit to the EAA museum in Oshkosh, by Jaap Horst
  • Louis de Monge and the Creation of the Bugatti 100P by Frank van Dalen
  • this includes WING SECTIONS USED IN AVIATION
  • A visit to Scotty Wilson and his project, by Jaap Horst

No. 34, Summer 2016

  • Fatal crash of Scotty Wilson, pilot and builder of Bugatti 100P Racing Airplane replica
  • Editorial and News
  • Meeting at the de Monge family castle October 15 / 16
  • Finds by the de Monge family
  • Letter from Noel Domboy
  • New info on the various Breguet-Bugatti powered aircraft
  • New photographs of the Breguet-Bugatti engines and aircraft
  • Advances in the completion of the Scotty Wilson Replica

No. 35, Winter 2017

  • Editorial and News
  • Meeting at the de Monge family castle October 15 / 16
  • Contribution of Louis de Monge to Bugatti’s Le Mans win

No. 36, Summer 2017

  • Editorial and News
  • Bugatti 100P airplane configuration changes
  • Lumière - Brevet de Monge - propeller
  • Monograph on the propeller, by Louis de Monge

No. 37, Winter 2017/18

  • Editorial and News
  • Bugatti 100P Crash Investigation
  • Matteo Mazzero design: the Mente
  • Maybe Bugatti inspired; the Planet Satellite

No. 38, Summer 2018

  • Editorial and News
  • A different kind of Bugatti
  • Another Lumière propeller identified
  • N.A.C.A. file on the Dyle and Bacalan DB 10
  • N.A.C.A. file on the Dyle and Bacalan DB 70
  • More photographs of the Dyle & Bacalan DB-70

No. 39, Winter 2019

  • Editorial and News
  • Presentation of the Bugatti Diatto Avio 8C
  • The article with which it started, for most enthusiasts, 1973
  • 1922 “Revue der Sporten” , article on the Breguet Léviathan

No. 40, Autumn 2019

  • Editorial and News
  • Support a Documentary
  • The French gliding and soaring competition.
  • The Bugatti: Louis de Monge, by Korean, Jeon Bong-Geun.
  • Louis de Monge’s patents.
  • Info on T50B engine No. 7

No. 41, Spring 2020

  • Editorial and News
  • Analog and digital models of the 100P
  • Reprint of the “Les avions Breguet” book, part 1.

No. 42, Winter 2020/2021

  • Editorial and News
  • Docteur Gabriel Espanet
  • Aero engines
  • Miniatures of the 100P
  • Restoring the Breguet-Bugatti 32B

No. 43, Summer 2021

  • Editorial and News
  • Photo’s of the Bugatti-US model at the Duesenberg plant
  • Letter from Lepère to Bugatti
  • Timeline Bugatti-King U-16 aircraft engine
  • Bugatti 100P oil pump
  • L’Illustration – Dyle & Bacalan DB70

No. 44, Winter 2023/24

  • Editorial and News
  • Thoughts on the purpose of the 100P airplane
  • Bugatti airplane propeller drive system, projet No. 3
  • 1968 Bugatti Brochure; the Concorde undercarriage
  • Article from La conquête de l’Air, December 1922
  • Some more miniature models

All back issues can be downloaded here (BAA members only)


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