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Originally Posted by winny
Kurfurst will hate it but the stock figures are from Gavin Bailey's paper..
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Actually I like Gavin Bailey's paper.
It says 100 octane was introduced to 'select' Squadrons in May 1940, and I cannot find any statement or reference in it or anything that would support the every-last-Hurricane-even-in-Northern-Scotland-was-running 100 octane theory.
Though as others has noted the paper is more concentrating on dispelling the 'myth' of dependency of US 100 octane fuel supplies, argues to downplay the significance of extra performance of 'US 100 octane' versus the extra performance by the addition of 'pure British' CSP units, and has overall quite a bit of anti-american tone, perhaps due to nationalistic grievance about the UK becoming a sort of a US satellite state after the war.
Of course here I refer to real Gavin Bailey, not the forum nick registered 'gbailey' who turned up very shortly after NZTyphoon's arrival, who refused to confirm his identity upon request, refused to respond to direct questions, and claimed that the only 100 octane fuel the Germans had in the BoB was from captured British stocks
eventually went ape and behaved in such a childish fashion - much like for example as if he were a university student in his 20s and pretending to be someone else - that the thread had to be closed and his posts had to be moderated.