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Old 24th November 2009, 20:13
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Re: Question for those expert in Bf109 G

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Originally Posted by Eduardo View Post
At least 40% of all Me 109 G used C-3 type fuel ! I know that the MW-50 required C 3 fuel but... I´ve saw a photo of a G-5/ AS serial 110064 of Günther Specht with C-3 type fuel and I wounder If it had MW-50 or GM-1 system.
The presence of GM-1 required the use of low-octane fuel (i.e 87 octane = B4). The fact that Specht's aircraft had a C3 (96 octane) indication, means that it had no GM-1 and most probably also no MW-50, since with the DB 605AS used B4 when MW-50 was installed.

The only exception was the DB 605ASC engine which could use C3 fuel with MW-50. This version however was built very late in the war, so I guess it is not the case of the G-5/AS flown by Specht.

IMHO, at least...
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