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Interesting... how was German C3 fuel (100 octane if I recall?) closer to British 100/150 types?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this topic, but here're my questions 1) How much 150 grade gasoline did the Allies (American and British) produce compared to 130 and 100 grade types? 2) What was the power output of the Rolls-Royce Merlin 60 series with 150 octane fuel, as compared to out...

German pilots thought the Fw190D-9 was the finest piston engined fighter Germany ever produced. Most of them never flew the Ta152, so no comparison can be made, and they complained that the Bf109K-4 was very difficult to fly, especially at altitude, compared to the Dora.

Allies used 150 octane???? Not bloody likely. More on the order of 100 octane. There were a few Luftwaffe pilots who used 100 octane fuel. Look closely at the fuel triangle near the filling port. Inside that yellow triangle is the octane number. The British probably produced more 150 octane fuel in...

Fuel would have been a big help to the Luftwaffe. Late in the war, not only did they have little fuel to use for combat purposes, most of it was used in combat units and little remained to use to train new pilots with. So more aviation fuel would definitely improved the Luftwaffe's situation.

The losses in experienced pilots did not really affect the Germans that early in the war. This can be seen in the RAF's heavy losses when they started fighter sweeps and circus operations over France.

IIRC the Americans were already using octane boosting additives. A Soviet pilot said (in an interview) that the difference between Soviet and American lend-lease gasoline was that the former was naturally pink while the latter was blue because of the chemicals added to boost octane rating.

For pre-registered fire I'd expect that the forward observer would measure the distance to target and angle from the battery, and then carefully correct for accuracy. The American system, in contrast, worked on map coordinates - the guy with the radio would call in fire on a map grid and within two ...

Another interesting to note would be how the Germans had to develop bigger and heavier engines to keep up in power output. For example, the DB605 had about the same displacement as the Rolls-Royce Griffon but developed about as much power as the Merlin for most of its service life. This was because ...

German forward observers were specially trained. Of course they would use a system where they could easily count their steps :) I too am interested to know how and when the Germans adopted the grid system. I read that the Germans got a few nasty surprises when the Red Army adopted a faster artillery...

Medal of Honor : Frontline for the PS2 game consol has the stg-44. For what I have played, its pretty nice looking...Basic Ak-47 deisgn to it. Looks like the russians borrowed their design but made it gas operated. Again, not too sure cause very few weapons were made, but yea, check out the video g...

Hello, Pressurization was done strictly for the pilot's comfort at high altitudes - it had no effect on aircraft performance. Hence the same performance stats in the G-1 and G-2. The high altitude performance of various aircraft depended on the presence or absence of turbochargers, turbosupercharge...

Rodger Herbst wrote:For my info;Were more Hurricanes used than Spitfires?Were the high scorers in the RAF foreign pilots,Poles,Czech,etc. Bowser

Yes. Hurricanes outnumbered Spitfires 2 to 1, if I recall. There were many Pole and Czech aces, but most top scorers were British, I believe.

Didn't the Maoris cannabilize dead Germans or something?

What types of cigarettes were issued to German troops?

Is it true that only Russian officers got real cigarettes, while enlisted men had to smoke cigarettes made from tobacco-stems instead of leaves?