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The Luftwaffe was forced to go to nitrous just to keep up, and this was a fuel issue. The Allies had 100/130octane av-gas by the beginning of the war, and later got the purple 115/145. The Germans made do with the equivalent of our 80/87 throughout the war. Some think this had a lot to do with the RAF winning the Battle of Britain, since the German planes had shorter range and could spend less time over the target than they would have had their engines been built for the high octane fuels. The Germans had to build bigger, heavier engines to do the same job, and carry ADI (water/alky injection systems) for high-boost situations, which added more weight, and finally the nitrous.
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