109 e3b against spitfire II

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Originally Posted by Viper2000

Pretty much all Spitfires & Hurricanes were running on 100 octane fuel with +12 psi war emergency power available during the battle. This is extensively documented.

Actually, this was discussed many times already. Sure there's extensive documentation of 100 octane use, which perfectly warrants that we have 100 octane variants of Spitfires & Hurricanes in the sim.

However, the claim that all of them were running on the fuel is quite simply baseless and there's no evidence of this, and it can be considered a bit wishful. On the contrary, there's convincing evidence found in archives detailed fuel use and decisions that the proccess of conversion begun in the spring of 1940 only (preceeded by various trials), and much of the force was still flying on 87 octane and lower engine power during the battle, until toward the end of 1940.