Talk:Granville Gee Bee Model Z Super Sportster

Please check your info before reverting
To the person who reverted my edits: what is your definition of a "reliable source"? The link currently quoted in the article states that "the Z set the world record for the fastest speed ever recorded by a land plane -- an average of 267.342 miles per hour". This is obviously wrong, as you can easily check, because the record was already set at 278 mph by the Bernard V.2 in 1924.

The fact that the Gee Bee Z never held an official FAI record is confirmed in many printed sources, among which: The Gee Bee Racers, by Mendenhall and Murphy, and World Speed Record Aircraft, by Käsmann. Mendenhall says that the Z was clocked at 282 mph but the record was unofficial because of a timing camera failure on the first pass. The explanation given in air-racing-history.com that the average speed did not exceed the previous record by a sufficient margin seems plausible too. (By the way, the page at air-racing-history.com that you dismissed as not reliable enough was already quoted six times in the article. In any case, it seems far better researched than the other weblinks provided.)

But after you plainly erased my edits, I won't waste my time to check and wikify this and will let you fix the mess yourself.

--195.132.138.81 (talk) 22:00, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Then that's my bad, and I apologise for not checking more thoroughly. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:02, 28 August 2013 (UTC)


 * No worry, thanks for restoring the edit. --195.132.138.81 (talk) 15:02, 29 August 2013 (UTC)