Quote:
"first trials of the fuel in a Spitfire took place at Rolls-Royce Hucknall on 24th September 1939 when K9788, fitted with a Merlin RM3S made it's first flights"
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They did rush it!!'
If we take January 1942 as the time the conversion for Spitfire Mk I's was complete that represents about
two years and four months between initial flight test and 100% ground operational adoption.
Compare that to the RLM's testing of 1.58ata/1.65 ata as a
straight manifold pressure increase in the BMW801D2. The motor was tested at that manifold pressure in May 1942. It was not until July 1944 that we see it in the Flugzueg Handbuch for the FW-190A8.
That is a two years and two months lag time. Do you not think the RLM was rushing this improvement, too?