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Operation M.C.72 – Recreating a World Speed Record Holding Seaplane

April 25, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

Over the last few years, Vintage Aviation News has covered the impressive efforts underway in Italy to build a replica of the majestic Savoia-Marchetti S.55X flying boat for eventual static display at the Volandia Museum, […]

Today in Aviation History – Agello Sets World’s Speed Record

April 10, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

On April, 10 1933 at Lago di Garda, Brescia, Italy, Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, Regia Aeronautica, flew the Macchi-Castoldi M.C. 72, MM 177, the first of five float planes in the series, over a 3-kilometer […]

Today in Aviation History -Macchi Castoldi M.C. 72, The World’s Fastest Piston-Powered Seaplane

October 23, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 8

By Luigino Caliaro. On October 23rd eighty years ago, Francesco Agello and the Macchi Castoldi M.C. 72 achieved the absolute world speed record for a piston-powered seaplane; a record which still stands to this day. “To […]

Francesco Agello

Operation M.C.72 – Recreating a World Speed Record Holding Seaplane

Today in Aviation History – Agello Sets World’s Speed Record

Today in Aviation History -Macchi Castoldi M.C. 72, The World’s Fastest Piston-Powered Seaplane

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