How One Chemist’s “ILLEGAL” Fuel Mix Made the P-51 Outrun Every German Fighter
Автор: Untold War Archives
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In early 1944, American chemist Eugène Houdry and General Jimmy Doolittle developed a revolutionary 150-octane aviation fuel so volatile that military officials nearly banned it from combat use. This purple-dyed "chemical impossibility" gave P-51 Mustangs an extra 300 horsepower, pushing speeds to nearly 490 mph and leaving German Bf 109s and Fw 190s unable to climb or escape. It wasn't superior aircraft design that won American air superiority in 1944—it was a fuel formula that the Luftwaffe could never replicate.
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