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ITALIAN SEAPLANE ATTAINS SPEED OF 450 MILES PER HOUR. London, Saturday. The unprecedented speed, in level flight, of 720 kilometres (450 miles) per hour has been attained during the last few days by an Italian seaplane. This speed was flown over one lap of a 3-kilometre course, and it vvas reached on more than one cccasion. For the world record challenge the flight has to be made twice in both directions, and the average of the four laps then calculated. The attempt may be made in the next few days. The pilot will probably be Flight-Ser-geant F. Agello. The machine is a development of the Macchi monoplane twin-engined seaplane, which came to England for the Schneider Trophy contest in 1929, hut did not then fly. It is now fitted with two Fiat engines, giving an aggregate of about 5500 h.p., compared with the 2600 h.p. of the British world-record machine. ___
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 3
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