Inaccurate performance data for BOB fighters in COD comparing to RL data

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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Probably because they never had the good fortune to make a combat report.

The ridiculous arguments are valid of course, as everyone has thier opinion of how it should be in CoD.

Actually not a "ridiculous argument" because detonation would have been a serious possibility had pilots tried to use +12 lbs override boost with 87 Octane, which did not have the anti-knock properties of 100 Octane. The engine might not have failed right away but it would certainly have been damaged and the pilot given a boot up the backside by the mechanics.

This is one of the absurdities of Crumpp's argument that somehow most of the Merlins used in frontline fighters during the Battle of Britain were restricted to using 87 Octane fuel - Hugh Dowding would not have been complaining to all Groups, Stations and Squadrons about pilots overusing +12 lbs boost, he would have been reminding pilots to never use +12 lbs boost under any circumstances, unless they belonged to the select few units permitted to use 100 Octane and +12 lbs boost.