Word: bernasconi
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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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...
...Lake Garda in northern Italy, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, commander of the Scuola di Alta Velocita (high speed school), took the controls of the "Red Bullet" seaplane in which Warrant Officer Francesco Agello lately made a new world speed record of 423.7 m. p. h. (TIME, April 17). Col. Bernasconi streaked around the measured course of the lake while timing cameras clicked. The developed films showed a speed (unofficial...
...flukes are the new Italian speed records, but the fruit of a determined program begun six years ago, after Britain won the Schneider Trophy on Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving...