wep on RAF planes awol???? boost levels??? no 100 octane fuel:(

[Moggy]

Originally Posted by fruitbat

no BF109E1/E4 for Luft, no 100 octane fuel for RAF.

its Battle of Britain, but not as we know it, at least according to history.

100 octane fuel went to the front line units from spring 1940....

Actually, I did some research on the 12lb boost Hurricane back last year for my squadron and the question of the 100 octane fuel arose. Here's Britain's stockpile of 100 octane fuel and my comments about it...

31st March 1940: 220,000 tons
11th July 1940: 343,000 tons
10th October 1940: 424,000 tons

"Now the stock levels are interesting and you can read them in a number of ways. You can say either that Britain and it's squadrons were well equipped with the fuel or you could say that Britain was well equipped but held back the fuel.
The way I see it is that those squadrons operating in France and 11 Group would of been well stocked with 100 octane fuel. Those that were in 13 Group would of been less so."