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Find the entire feature on page 37 in the July2012 issue.
During the early 1930s, Italian sport aircraft were not competitive on the internal level. By the late 1930s, Italy held many world aviation records, most famously the absolute world speed record for seaplanes with the Macchi MC.72. Yet the country’s vainglorious dictator, Benito Mussolini, wanted more, particularly sport airplane records held primarily by Germany.
Toward that end, engineer Pierre Luigi Nardi designed an unusual twin-fuselage light…