[Glider]

Originally Posted by winny

My reservations about 'certain stations' are that it's very vague, and unless it can be quantified it's pretty mute. 3, 4 or 5, or 10, 11 or 12..?

I'm going to have a look at what other squadrons were operating out of Hornchurch, Biggin Hill and Duxford at the time too.

It's harder to find BoB combat reports than I thought, initially (with VERY limited data) it would appear that some 3 or 4 stations were first issued 100 oct in May/June, then more were added in July (found ref to 2)
August is where it seems to get busy..

Which slightly counters Kurfursts claim that the roll-out of 100 octane didn't happen till September.. Some were obviously converted by the end of August

However September/October do seem to have way more 12lb combat reports (20+ squadrons) than all the other months.

Try these

http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit1vrs109e.html
http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...rricane-I.html