{"id":15507536,"date":"2026-08-23T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=15507536"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:47:04","slug":"macchi-mc72-fastest-seaplane-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/macchi-mc72-fastest-seaplane-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Seaplane Ever Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On a grey October afternoon in 1934, the mountains above Lake Garda heard something they would never hear again. A scarlet machine sat low on the water at Desenzano, twin floats trembling, and then its engine spoke &mdash; not a drone but a detonating roar that rolled off the Alpine slopes and came back doubled. Warrant Officer Francesco Agello opened the throttle, the lake blurred to a silver smear, and the M.C.72 lifted into legend.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Four laps later he had flown at 709.209 km\/h &mdash; 440.68 mph &mdash; faster than any seaplane driven by a piston engine had gone before, or has gone since. Ninety years on, the record still stands. No propeller-driven floatplane has ever caught it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This is the story of how a beautiful, murderous little aircraft, born to win a race it never flew, instead wrote its name into the record books for good.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#222\">Kurzinfo<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.5\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Hersteller<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Aeronautica Macchi (Italy)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Designer<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Mario Castoldi<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Motor<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Fiat AS.6 &mdash; two coupled V-12s, 24 cylinders, contra-rotating propellers<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Record speed<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">709.209 km\/h (440.68 mph), 23 October 1934<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Record pilot<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Francesco Agello<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Preserved at<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Italian Air Force Museum, Vigna di Valle<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Built to beat the British<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>By the late 1920s the Schneider Trophy had become a proxy war fought at three hundred miles an hour. Italy had tasted glory &mdash; Macchi&rsquo;s M.39 took the cup in 1926 &mdash; but then Supermarine&rsquo;s sleek British racers began an unbroken run of victories, and Rome could not abide it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The commission fell to Mario Castoldi, Macchi&rsquo;s gifted chief designer, the same pen that would later shape the Folgore fighters of the Second World War. What flowed from it was exquisite: a diminutive floatplane of clean, tapering lines, its wings and floats skinned in flush surface radiators because the powerplant to come would run murderously hot. The aircraft was ready in 1931 for what would prove the final Schneider contest. Instead, it never reached the starting line.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=15572190  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/macchi-m-c-72-on-the-water.jpg\" alt=\"Macchi M.C.72 on the water\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The M.C.72 on the water. Every rivet was in service of speed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;To beat the Brits: that is one of the reasons why the Macchi-Castoldi M.C.72 was built. To win the Schneider Trophy. Fascist Italy felt it had to change that.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Luigino Caliaro<\/strong> &mdash; Aviation historian<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KU2OJ_VvcDw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The engine that killed<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The heart of the M.C.72 was the Fiat AS.6, and it was less an engine than an act of defiance. Fiat took two of its AS.5 V-12s and coupled them in tandem &mdash; twenty-four cylinders in a single slender nose &mdash; producing something on the order of 2,500 horsepower, later coaxed beyond 3,000. A conventional propeller could never have absorbed that torque; the aircraft would have rolled itself into the lake on take-off. Castoldi&rsquo;s answer was elegant: two coaxial propellers spinning in opposite directions, each cancelling the other&rsquo;s twist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The engine, however, was not tamed so easily. On the bench the AS.6 ran faultlessly; in the air it backfired and, at times, exploded. Development cost two men their lives &mdash; Captain Giovanni Monti in August 1931 and Lieutenant Stanislao Bellini that September, both over Lake Garda. Accounts differ on the precise mechanics, but the engine&rsquo;s violence is the common thread.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Italy asked to postpone the 1931 race. The British refused. The Regia Aeronautica withdrew, and the Schneider Trophy passed to Britain for good. The M.C.72 had failed at the only task it was built for.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLRLhZJsCh4\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1730210648  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/francesco-agello-mc72-float.jpg\" alt=\"Francesco Agello on the M.C.72 float\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Francesco Agello, the record pilot, on the float of the M.C.72. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A record that would not fall<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Mussolini, sensing prestige, ordered the work continued. It fell in part to a British engineer, Rod Banks, to blend the exotic high-octane fuel that finally calmed the AS.6. With the engine tamed, Agello took the machine to 682 km\/h in April 1933. Eighteen months later he went back for more, and on 23 October 1934 averaged 709.209 km\/h over the three-kilometre course. His gold-medal citation honoured him as a pilot of &ldquo;exceptional valor and ardor.&rdquo; The M.C.72 never flew again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;High-Speed pilot of exceptional valor and ardor. On two occasions he broke the absolute world speed record.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gold Medal citation<\/strong> &mdash; For Francesco Agello, Medaglia d&rsquo;Oro al Valore Aeronautico<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Let us be precise about what that record is. Landplanes soon flew faster &mdash; a Messerschmitt in 1939, a hot-rodded Mustang in our own century. But among seaplanes turning a propeller, nothing has ever equalled it. Agello&rsquo;s aircraft, its scarlet paint still bright, waits at Vigna di Valle: the fastest seaplane ever built, holding a mark that has outlived everyone who made it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/raJXQWuqLpo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#666;font-size:14px\">Sources: Wikipedia (Macchi M.C.72; Fiat AS.6; Francesco Agello); Vintage Aviation News (Luigino Caliaro); HistoryNet; This Day in Aviation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a 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