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Originally Posted by Crumpp
Of course they did. They had more than two sets when Jets came along too.
The Germans had even more. They used LOX and LNOX. You don't want to mix those two up.
Fortunately they had different nozzles and you would have to be pretty dense to force it past the filler plate.
That is why aircraft are required to be correctly placarded at all fill points. It is part of the airworthiness.
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Almost. Most RAF front line stations had one tanker for 87 octane for visiting non operational aircraft but to all intents and purposes they only had one set of bowsers for operational use. This is a general statement but the modern tankers that could refuel two or three aircraft at the same time were used for ops, the older single point tanker tended to be for 87 Octane.
There was an amusing side to this in the NA. Churchill was visiting a fighter station during the BOB when one of the junior pilots said that the turnaround time could be much improved if the staions had just one extra tanker. Churchill wrote to the Chief of the Air Staff about this wanting more information. The CAS had to get his people to look into it and prove beyond any doubt that the main problem with turn around time wasn't fuel it was the time taken to rearm the eight guns on the fighters. Back came Churchill asking what he was doing about it and in the end they trained other station personell such as guards in some of the rearming tasks so if there was a rush they could help out.
What was interesting were the words the CAS was using. You could almost feel his frustration at have to spend a fair amount of time on a topic caused by a junior officer. Equally it showed the care that CHurchill put into listening to his pilots.