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...Fastest man has ever traveled is 440 m.p.h., a speed attained in the air by Italian Francesco Agello in 1934. Speed record on water is 129 m.p.h., set last September by Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the land speed record (301 m.p.h.) before Captain Eyston...
...Previous landplane record was 314.3 m.p.h., held by France's Raymond Delmotte. Still unequaled is the seaplane record of Italy's Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello-440.6 m.p.h...
...World speed record for seaplanes (440.6 m.p.h.) was made two months ago in Italy by swart, tiny Francesco ("Crazy Boy") Agello (TIME...
Married. Lieut. Francesco Agello, Italian aviator; and Gianna Maneti, his childhood sweetheart; in Milan. A promotion from Sergeant Major, granted him after he established a new world's speed record of 440.6759 m.p.h. last October (TIME, Nov. 5), enabled Aviator Agello to marry...
Bullet. Two months ago at Lake Garda, Italy, stocky little Francesco Agello, 30, sole survivor of Italy's 1931 Schneider Cup team, whipped the seaplane Red Bullet over the course for a new world record of 423.7 m.p.h. A month later his chief, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, was timed unofficially at 434 m.p.h. Last week Warrant Officer Agello, leader of the speed school, tried the course again in his Red Bullet. Timing cameras, again unofficial, caught his speed at 440 m.p.h...