The New Speed Record: Details of the Italian Macchi Castoldi Seaplane and Fiat Engine

Abstract

ON April 10 Warrant‐Officer Francesco Agello of the Italian Air Force set up a new speed record of 682–403 k.p.h. (424 m.p.h.) over a 3‐kilometre course at Lake Garda in a Macchi Castoldi 72 seaplane with a 2,500‐h.p. Fiat A.S.6 engine.

Citation

Giacomelli, R. (1933), "The New Speed Record: Details of the Italian Macchi Castoldi Seaplane and Fiat Engine", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 5 No. 6, pp. 129-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb029686