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Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

Yep, the 1954 article is a good overview of the development of R-R engines. A more specific article on the development of the Merlin can be found here:

http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.o...in-lovesey.pdf

A document outsourced from nowhere with a very specific account of history and so contradictory with - for example - the doc I linked from Flight Journal an internationaly respected publication : humm

Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

and more general pages on 100 octane

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0octane%20fuel

A document writed in a civil publication right when war was ranging .... Humm Humm

Originally Posted by NZtyphoon

and the Blenheim
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0octane%20fuel

this one is not too bad but still a civil publication explaining in 1939 why the enemy shld take seriously hence fear the mighty Blenheim


Well you guessed that I am even more ... less convinced. Even more as in their respective history, Flight didn't quote those pages from their own magazine when they did on the other points.

30lb yeah really with 300 hour of endurance ?!

and what next, the Brit first detonated a nuke INSIDE a Merlin engine when the US were still craking nuts in the French Ardennes ?