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Originally Posted by Seadog
So now the story changes to "our 100 octane gave better performance than your 100 octane" when Kurfurst knows full well that only a handful of 109Es used 100 octane, versus the entire RAF FC while the 110 got slaughtered no matter what fuel it used.
In Adolf Gallands own words while speaking to Goering:
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A typical biased reply!!!
The difference was in the engines, the 27l Merline needed the 100 octane to compete with the 35l DB601 with 87 octane.
The DB601 with 100 octane was playing in another ballpark and restored the engine superiority until better Merlins appeared.