{"id":830807,"date":"2026-05-12T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/macchi-mc-72-italian-floatplane-speed-record\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:30:55","slug":"macchi-mc-72-italian-floatplane-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/macchi-mc-72-italian-floatplane-speed-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Macchi MC.72: A 1934 Floatplane Still Holds a World Speed Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>On 23 October 1934, at the Italian seaplane base of Desenzano del Garda on Lake Garda, a bright red aircraft with two enormous counter-rotating propellers screamed across the water at 440.681 miles per hour. The pilot, Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, climbed out of the cockpit a record holder. He had set the world absolute speed record \u2014 for any aircraft, of any kind, anywhere.<\/p>\n\n<p>That record stood, in the seaplane category, for the next ninety years. It still stands today. The aircraft was the Macchi MC.72. Italy built five of them. None ever fired a shot in anger. And yet the MC.72 may be one of the most extraordinary aircraft ever assembled.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f6f8;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.65\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Macchi-Castoldi MC.72<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Designer:<\/strong> Mario Castoldi<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Maiden flight:<\/strong> 22 June 1931<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Powerplant:<\/strong> Fiat AS.6, two V-12s coupled end-to-end \u2014 3,100 hp<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Propeller:<\/strong> Two counter-rotating three-blade props<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Top speed:<\/strong> 709 km\/h (440.681 mph) \u2014 23 October 1934<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Pilot at record:<\/strong> Warrant Officer Francesco Agello<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> 5 examples (only 1 surviving)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Schneider Trophy That Never Was<\/h2>\n\n<p>The MC.72 was Italy&#8217;s intended entrant for the 1931 Schneider Trophy \u2014 the prestigious international seaplane race that drove much of pre-war piston-engine development. Britain won that 1931 contest outright with the Supermarine S.6B, the direct ancestor of the Spitfire, retiring the trophy for good. Italy never got to race the MC.72.<\/p>\n\n<p>So instead, Macchi did the only thing left: it kept refining the aircraft and went after the absolute speed record. And in 1933, then again in 1934, it took the record by a wider margin each time.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">An Engine Like a Train<\/h2>\n\n<p>The MC.72&#8217;s heart was the Fiat AS.6 \u2014 not one engine, but two V-12s coupled end to end, geared to drive two counter-rotating propellers on the same shaft. The arrangement solved the torque problem that had limited every other racing seaplane: a single huge propeller spinning at 3,000 hp generated enough rotational torque to flip the airframe on takeoff. Counter-rotating props cancelled it.<\/p>\n\n<p>The engine produced 3,100 horsepower in record-trim. To put that in context, the contemporary British S.6B made 2,300 hp. The Spitfire that would fight the Battle of Britain six years later made 1,030 hp.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A Record That Refuses to Die<\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:26px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:17px;line-height:1.7;font-style:italic;color:#222\"><p style=\"margin:0\">&ldquo;The flight of 23 October 1934 established an absolute world speed record for all aircraft types \u2014 a record which stood until 30 March 1939, when Hans Dieterle flew a prototype Heinkel He 100 at 746.6 km\/h.&rdquo;<\/p><p style=\"margin:14px 0 0;font-size:14px;color:#555;font-style:normal\"><strong>F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI)<\/strong> &mdash; ratification of Francesco Agello&#8217;s 440.681 mph record<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The MC.72&#8217;s 440 mph mark remains the all-time piston-engine seaplane speed record. No floatplane built since \u2014 and many have been tried \u2014 has come close. The combination of brute power, low-drag floats, and counter-rotating propellers turned out to be a one-time alignment of engineering possibilities that nobody has bothered to repeat.<\/p>\n\n<p>One MC.72 survives, on display at the Italian Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle, just outside Rome. It still wears the bright red paint Macchi delivered it in. Standing next to it, the aircraft does not look its age. It looks like it might still go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;margin:32px 0;border-radius:8px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KU2OJ_VvcDw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:-12px\">How Italy built the fastest seaplane in the world \u2014 the MC.72 story.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources: Italian Air Force Museum, Janes Historical Aircraft, Flight magazine archives.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 October 1934, at the Italian seaplane base of Desenzano del Garda on Lake Garda, a bright red aircraft with two enormous counter-rotating propellers screamed across the water at 440.681 miles per hour. 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