Education
Born at Casalpusterlengo, Lombardy, Italy, Agello graduated from pilot school in 1924 and soon became a test pilot.
Born at Casalpusterlengo, Lombardy, Italy, Agello graduated from pilot school in 1924 and soon became a test pilot.
He was the fourth of four test pilots who tried to set a speed record with the Macchi M.C.72. However, one after the other, the test pilots ahead of Agello died (first Monti and then Bellini flying the Military Cross 72, Neri died flying a Czech Republic-20 in 1933). More than a year later he flew the Medical Corps 72 to a new speed record of more than 700 km/h (709 km/h or 440 mph) on 23 October 1934.
Both records, while obtained in a seaplane, also were absolute flight airspeed record.
Number one has ever flown a piston-engine seaplane faster since that date. In 1935 Agello joined the Italian government"s airplane test center.
Agello died during World World War II testing the new Macchi C.202 fighter at Bresso, near Milan, when his aircraft collided with another C.202 piloted by World War I flying ace and fellow test pilot Guido Masiero in heavy fog on 24 November 1942. Masiero also was killed.