As aviation historian Gregory Alegi once remarked, Agello's 1934 flight was “the swan song of the float plane era.” The Macchi M.C. 72 is now a relic of that time, but one that continues to ...

From this came the Macchi C.202 Folgore (“Thunderbolt ... performance levels on par with contemporary Allied and German aircraft. The C.202 featured a fully enclosed cockpit, as well ...

Gregory Alegi, a military historian and defense journalist based in Rome, calls Agello’s 1934 record “The swan song of the epic era of the float plane.” Macchi was little more than a ...

the Curtiss R3C-1 that Doolittle flew to victory in 1925 (the aircraft, outfitted with landing gear instead of floats, won the 1925 Pulitzer race as well); Italy's Macchi M.39, which won the 1926 ...

The picture shows the aircraft Macchi C.202 Folgore marked 9476 exhibited at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. The aircraft is one of the few Italian WWII fighters that ...