Bug 174 on 12lbs boost. Review please.

[NZtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Source please for 87 octane not being issued operational Fighter Command units.

I say you just made that up.

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.