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Originally Posted by Crumpp
There is no resistance to evidence. I just don't call random clippings of documents out of context combined with assumption evidence.
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No, you take just one pre-war document discussing 16 Squadrons by September 1940, and stick to that no matter what.
*Please name the 16 Squadrons, and describe the logistical arrangements the RAF made to ensure that
only 16 Squadrons of fighters were supplied with the fuel, with your documented evidence please.
*Please explain how it was possible for only 16 squadrons to fly operational trials on 100 octane, yet 62,000 tons of 100 Octane fuel was issued, with 51,000 tons of it being consumed while only about 15,000 tons was needed to fly all defensive frontline sorties flown between July and 6 October 1940 - and provide some documented evidence please.
*In a previous post you made a claim that reserves of 100 Octane would have sunk to "unrealistically low levels" had the RAF used 100 Octane for all defensive sorties flown during the Battle of Britain. You have not yet provided any documentary evidence for this, plus you have ignored the fact that reserves of other grades of fuel progressively sunk well below the levels of those for 100 Octane fuel throughout 1940.
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Originally Posted by Crumpp
You are talking about running the engine at 3 times its original design maximum capacity.
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So you think the Merlin was designed to run at about 400 hp? Unfortunately the Merlin II and III were designed for much higher power than that - in fact the Merlin was tested and approved for +12lb boost by November 1939 and the Merlin XII for 12½ lbs boost with no ill effects (attach 1)
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Originally Posted by Crumpp
You think they did that without extensive testing to ensure they did not lose all of their aircraft? You think they just said, "Great!! everybody use this right now all at once!!" Who cares about logistics or technical mumbo jumbo....
I don't think so.
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Nope, that's just your assertion - you completely ignore the fact that testing of the Merlin on 100 Octane fuel and +12lbs boost was completed in November 1939. You also ignore the fact that the same document observes that there were adequate reserves of 100 Octane available to allow the conversion of all Hurricanes and Spitfires to use +12 boost. (attach 1);
*You completely ignore the fact that squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes had converted to 100 Octane by February 1940;
*You completely ignore the fact that Hurricane Squadrons of the BEF in France, as well as home based units used 100 Octane
in combat in May 1940. Bearing this in mind please explain why the RAF decided to continue to use 16 Squadrons for "operational testing purposes only" until at least September, and please provide documented evidence for this assertion. Then, once again, please explain how these 16 Squadrons - and some Blenheim units - between them consumed 52,000 tons of 100 Octane fuel in three months while doing "operational testing".
*You are the one asserting that all the RAF was interested in doing throughout the Battle of Britain was making operational trials of 100 Octane, so kindly provide some documentary evidence for this claim; and please don't bother using a pre-war document, nor the fact that Morgan and Shacklady cite the document - all that proves is that the country was not yet at war and facing full scale air attack.
Until you provide some evidence you can stop dissing all the evidence presented by Glider, lane et al as " random clippings of documents combined with assumption", because the only thing you have presented is
assumption, assertions and surmises - based on modern, civilian peacetime practices, which you seem to think is a reflection of what happened in 1940, while a nation was undergoing full scale attack - with absolutely
no evidence to prove whatever it is you're trying to prove.