Bug 174 on 12lbs boost. Review please.

[JtD]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

IF the ABC cutout was set to maintain +12 lbs boost and not +9, that is. Currently it seems as per the July 1940 manual that the ABC cotout was maintain +9 lbs boost. But as the evidence stands, the ABC cutout was unlikely to have been modified until 1941, when +12 was cleared for 5-min all out level.

Please show the evidence for a single Merlin engine ever being fielded with a boost control cutout modified for 9lbs boost. I may then consider this hypothesis of yours for an argument.

But IF we were talking hypotheticals, it's still totally absurd to assume that the boost control cut out has no effect if used under full throttle conditions. What a bunch of idiots the engineers must have been.

Curious to see evidence.