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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter
<...>The ~50,000 tons consumed must have been burned in the pilots cars and motorcycles. 
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Well, some of the pilots noted using 100 octane in thier cars, but 50,000 tons worth? I doubt it!
Tony Bartley DFC,
Smoke Trails in the Sky, (Crecy Publishing Limited, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 1997), p. 35.
Tim Vigors DFC,
Life’s Too Short to Cry, (Grub Street, London, 2006), p. 137.