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Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Again, a wild assumption - and one that is based on merely that _you_ haven't seen something, and this MUST mean something you would like to be true.
It's an assumption based on the fact that I can't find a picture of a '100' marked spitfire dated any later than July 1940. It's not something I would 'like' to be true, I don't operate like that. I'm coming at this from an unbiased approach.




Again, assumptions and oversimplifications.. I suggest you read the previous thread, where fuel requirements for non-operational flights, engine manufacturers were discussed in detail.

No, I suggest that you tell me how they could use 27,000,000 gallons of 100 octane fuel during BoB. Hasn't one of your arguments been that they had limited supply, now you're saying they didn't?

I noticed you made no remark about the fact that I can find combat reports from May-july 1940 that show at least 30 squadrons were using 100 octane

Is this also oversimplified or assumption? No, it's fact.

So I'll ask you again. How do you explain this?

EDIT : I've noticed that the Gallons per ton figure I quoted is wrong, Sorry..

Like I said, I'm trying to be unbiased so it's only fair that I point out my own mistakes.

I've since found a figure that 1 gallon of 100 octane weighed 7.2 lb.
2000 lb's in a ton so the usage for BoB was 161 million Gallons.
(58,000 X 2000 / 7.2 = total gallons?)