The heat is rising again and I believe that people need to calm down and the best way is for some simple questions to be asked and to get some replies.
The latest focus of conversation is the fuel that was used.
We know that Bomber Command did approx 10,600 combat sorties during the BOB (data from Bomber Command Diary page 91, period 26 June to 13 October) plus a lot of training flights number unknown. I don't pretend to know the size of the tanks on Bomber Command aircraft but can safely assume that they are a lot bigger than a SE fighter.
Crump
The question I have is simple, do you agree that they would have used 87 octane until late August / September when they were allowed to use 100 Octane as per the paper I posted?
Edit
For the period 10 May to 25th June BC undertook approx 5,100 sorties
Last edited by Glider; 03-25-2012 at 11:03 PM.
Reason: Add period prior to 26 June
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