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Old 05-19-2012, 10:20 PM
Seadog Seadog is offline
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You do know he was being sarcastic just to get at goering right?
I see some people who actually believe galland wanted spits which is just not the case.
Crump/Kurfurst believe that the Merlin could run at 12lb boost on 87 octane fuel with greatly improved performance. If their thesis is correct, and Galland also knew this, then, of course, he would have tried to light a fire under Goering's butt.