Bug 174 on 12lbs boost. Review please.

[Seadog]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Proposals to secure sufficient 100 octane supplies.

What the hell do these documents from late 1938 have to do with the BofB?

[41Sqn_Banks]

Can all stop the bashing and the personal attack please?

[41Sqn_Banks]

A.P. 3397 Maintenance (1954)

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Banks

A.P. 3397 Maintenance (1954)

Brilliant! Where did you find this?

[Kurfürst]

What's the excitement, we know for some time that the first stations changed over to 100 octane in February, hardly any news in that..

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

What's the excitement, we know for some time that the first stations changed over to 100 octane in February, hardly any news in that..

so you got any proof yet that any fighter in 11 group during BoB wasn't using 100 octane fuel yet........

and i mean proof, not your spam.

just one fighter report will do.......

are you ever going to rely on anything other than pre war documents, lol.

[Seadog]

Those years of research to make 100 octane commercially available paid off magnificently in historical significance during World War II. While aware of the superior quality of 100 octane as aviation fuel, Germany had neither indigenous petroleum Production nor a highly developed refining industry, and the possibilities of domestic production or storage on a large scale were limited. Indeed, when Hitler marched into Poland in 1939, the hydrogenation plant of Jersey's affiliate, Standard Oil of Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, was alone turning out more 100 octane gasoline than all the combined refineries and synthetic oil plank in Germany. Throughout the war, the Luftwaffe was forced to rely on aromatic types of synthetic fuels. The combat effectiveness of 100 octane was strikingly demonstrated initially in the Battle of Britain where Royal Air Force Spitfires and Hurricanes outfought the enemy. Germany lost 2,152 planes to Britain's 620.

The petroleum industry exerted a tremendous effort to keep the Allies supplied with 100 octane gasoline during the war years...
MJ Rathbone (President of Standard oil Company)Fuel for Flight, Flying Magazine Oct 1958, p37.

Funny how there's a complete lack of sources stating that RAF FC didn't exclusively use 100 octane fuel during the BofB...