Italian aircraft fuel

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don't know the blend but the captured P-38 Lightning the Italians flew only lasted a few days as the petrol was low octane & ruined the engines. Italian aircraft were designed to operate on this lower octane fuel. Italian aircraft design of the time is very interesting due to the many non-standard ways they did things.
 
afaik WW2 italian combat aircraft used 87 octane fuel, the CR-32 was the exception but was old at time.
take in the count that most of wartime new fuel was german
 

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