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Originally Posted by Kurfürst
Source please for 87 octane not being issued operational Fighter Command units.
I say you just made that up.
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No, Kurfurst is just making up stories that 87 Octane was used in operational FC units, with absolutely no written evidence to back such claims. In fact Payton-Smith makes it specific that 87 octane was used for non-operational flying (top of p 56).
and Dowding specifies it in a circular to
all FC units
NB: Kurfurst tried to post his "evidence" of the "Pips' Papers" in the bugtracker report
http://www.il2bugtracker.com/issues/174 only to have it tossed out - twice (# 41 and 61) by unanimous decision; # 66 he
demanded that my post # 65 be deleted, complaining it was nothing but spam, and that demand got tossed out as well. Personally I couldn't care less if Kurfurst and Crumpp don't believe that all FC frontline units used 100 Octane - their opinions don't count because they don't have any evidence to back up their own claims, apart from some pre-war planning papers.