Inaccurate performance data for BOB fighters in COD comparing to RL data

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Originally Posted by Glider

I should add that I have looked at most of the squadron record of units that formed after May 1940 and that I checked their records up to May 1941. In none of those records was there any mention of converting to 100 octane or CS props....

Its also worth repeating that I have been all through the Air Minestry files, the Oil Co ordination Committee file, the Chief of the Air Staffs papers both committee and private files and of course the War Cabinet file. None of these have any mention of a halting of the role out, of any shortage or any restart. If anyone believes that RAF squadrons went into combat using 87 octane then prove it.

Interesting how few papers, or little other evidence, has been presented by those who subscribe to the notion that the RAF purportedly refused to issue 100 octane fuel to about 2/3rds of its fighter units, while complaining that there is little evidence to the contrary presented by people who have actually spent hours physically searching the archives, and have posted the results ad nauseum.

Nor have these people explained how the RAF prevented none but "concerned" or "selected units", 16 squadrons, from using the fuel?

To KF, VIP et al:

Could you please explain in concise detail how the RAF selected the 16 squadrons, and how the RAF made sure that only 16 squadrons at a time used 100 Octane fuel, and could you provide documented evidence of the processes and logistics used by the RAF to ensure that only 16 squadrons at a time were allowed to use the fuel during the B of B?

Could you please provide some documented evidence that there was a shortage of 100 octane fuel during July, August, such that FC had to stop using the fuel?

Could you please provide documentary evidence of FC pilots (apart from Gladiators, NF Blenheims and Whirlwinds) using 87 octane fuel in combat between July and September 1940?

Pleeease???