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Old 03-02-2012, 10:20 PM
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Historical research rarely comes up with 100% proof
Nothing in this thread has convinced me anything other than we do not have enough information.

As an example, Read what Shacklady and Morgan have to say about the 100 Octane fuel.

1. Strategic Fuel Reserve was to be 800,000 tons on hand before ANY aircraft flew using the fuel.

2. Sixteen fighter squadrons and two bomber squadrons were to begin using the fuel in September 1940.

If you look at the consumption figures, you will see it is not until September 1940 that 100 octane consumption begins to equal half of the total fuel consumption.

16 squadrons is just over 1/3 of Fighter Command and our multi engine bombers of course consume more fuel proportional to the number of engines.

You can really see the drop in consumption of 87 Octane after September, 1940. Which also begs to ask, who is using all the 87 octane during July and August of the BoB???

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...=20110&page=23

Point is you can speculate until the cows come home. Without a document saying listing it as the specified fuel, this is all assumption.

I am out of this debate at this point. There is nothing intelligent to discuss about it until a fuel specification order or something saying all units are to use it is found. All that can be said as a fact is the RAF transitioned from 87 Octane to 100 Octane by early 1941. Have fun guys and enjoy what you do.

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