Talk:George Stainforth

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A fact from George Stainforth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 July 2007.

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[edit] Air Speed Record

Sections "Schneider Trophy" and "Breaking the 400mph barrier" both document Stainforth's achievment of the air speed record at 407.5 mph, though apparently on two different dates, 10 September 1929 and 29 September 1931.

I think the section "Breaking the 400mph barrier" should be re-written to correctly describe the record. The "Schneider Trophy" section is not really necessary - the first sentence of this section would be better included at the end of the introductory paragraph under "Career", which already mentions Stainforth serving with High Speed Flight. --Romney yw (talk) 04:33, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Further question: the article states that fuel was a "mixture of petrol, methanol and ethyl". Ethyl is not correct by itself - was it ethyl alcohol? For naming consistency, we should strictly use "methanol and ethanol" or "methyl and ethyl alcohols", but this level of technical accuracy probably isn't that important here.... --Romney yw (talk) 11:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

The correct date for the 400 mph record is the 29th in 1931, as the 10th in 1929 was his lower record in the Gloster VI Andy Dingley (talk) 23:10, 21 April 2008 (UTC)