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Originally Posted by Crumpp
My personal belief is the RAF operated 16 squadrons on the fuel as that is what our facts say. No need to build a house of cards based on crude, one-dimensional, speculation and factual error.
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Which is exactly what you're doing, and you will clearly stick to your core belief come hell or high water. Not a problem.
If you want to continue to believe that for some obscure reason the RAF issued 62,000 tons of 100 Octane fuel, then consumed 52,000 gallons, while only needing some 16,000 tons to fly every sortie flown between July 10 and October 6 then
okay, that's your pigeon.
If you want to stick to the story that the RAF only allowed 16 squadrons to use the fuel, based on an abbreviated, pre-war transcript of what was probably a lengthy discussion - go ahead.
If you honestly believe that modern peacetime practices equate to 1940s wartime conditions when, as I will repeat - because you can't seem to grasp this
tiny issue - the RAF was fighting off a full scale air assault, hey go for it!
Alec Harvey-Bailey, The Merlin in Perspective, (Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Derby, 1983)
W.G. Dudek and D. R. Winans, excerpt from AIAA Paper No. 69-779, Milestones in Aviation Fuels, (Esso Research and Engineering Company, New York 1969.)
A. R. Ogston, excerpt from History of Aircraft Lubricants (Society of Automotive Enginees, Inc. Warrendale, PA USA), p. 12.
Just explain to everyone why it is that people far more qualified than you say the fuel was blended at the refineries, then shipped to Britain as 100 Octane fuel? (Not forgetting, either, that 100 octane was also blended in Britain, which is why some of the Beaconhill fuel was set aside as a sample.) And please explain why people, who are far more qualified than you, tell us that the switchover to 100 Octane for all Spitfires and Hurricanes was in March 1940?
And please explain why the same rules don't apply to other grades of aviation fuel? Why is it that you accept entirely the proposition that the RAF can issue and consume 87 Octane fuel,
which is also blended, in large quantities and you have no similar objections? Hmmm? Why apply this logic ONLY to 100 Octane fuel?