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Originally Posted by Crumpp
No Milo,
I said the Notes on a Merlin Engine does not list 100 Octane as the specified fuel. That points to the extent of use and service.
By January 1942, 100 Octane was common enough for the Notes on a Merlin Engine to distinguish 100 Octane as the fuel for operations and 87 Octane for training.
I can see why you would be confused.
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The extent of use and service is pointed to by the expenditure of thousands of tons of 100 octane fuel, numerous RAF documents stating its use during the BofB, numerous combat reports, and pilot accounts of 12lb boost and a complete lack of evidence of the same for 87 octane...but this is an argument long past now.
This issue now is that 87 and 100 octane performance in CLoD is completely FUBARed.