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Already posted - Caldwell citing orders from Luftwaffenkommando West ordering fighter units to only operate under favourable conditions, 30 October 1944 - no evidence given that these orders were rescinded.Maybe you should read this. You can see units with 109K (IRC kurfurst somewhere in article gave exact numbers, but cannot find it.. :/ but sure 109K was very common) and example of planes with C-3 fuel triangle, Allied reports of 109 with C-3 etc. This goes against your doubts of C-3 lack strongly...
Kurfürst - OKL, GdJ-Grp. Qu-, Br. B. Nr. 1561/45 g.Kdos. von 20. März 1945.
Yes you are entitled to your opinion. In the meantime, I ask you to post your sources about alleged lack of C-3 and MW-50.
I have no doubt the DB 605 was more powerful than the DB601E - Mankau and Petrick made the point that until initial problems with the DB605 were solved the use of emergency power was forbidden, thus limiting the maximum power. Without seeing the relevant power curves for the DB605 v DB601E how are we to know?
What is more important - and my question was - in light of the changes made to the 605 design versus the 601, and the general concerns of the RLM over the DB605, how reliable was the DB 605 by the time the K-4 got into service, particularly with the steep decline in build quality/possible sabotage and shortages of important metals? It also needs to be noted that in late October 1944, because of constant attacks on the oil industry, aviation fuels were in short supply, so much so that Luftwaffenkommando West ordered that operations be curtailed:
'Who are we to know'? Some rhetorycs.
The power curve for the Db-605E is to be found here (1320 PS @ 4,8 km, Notleistung), the power of the DB-605A is here, at 4,8 km giving the same power, but on Steig Kampfleistung. At 6 km the DB-605A gives 1220 PS, same rating, the DB-601E giving 1150, Notleistung.
I'll thank you for the excerpts, but attaching the problems with fuel quality quantity to the way the engine was designed produced ('inherent design flaws' was it?) does not make a good analysis. In the excerpt by Olivier Lefebvre, the fuel low quality was mentioned among culprits, along with spark plug issues (availability of suitable types). You can note in Allied technical reports that their spar plugs (lead fouling) was an issue with engines running at high boost. You can check the reports at Mike Williams' site.
You can read in your own excerpts that many a Fw-190D-9 was capable of 590 km/h. Should we all now start to throw rocks at Jumo-213A?
Maybe you should read this. You can see units with 109K (IRC kurfurst somewhere in article gave exact numbers, but cannot find it.. :/ but sure 109K was very common) and example of planes with C-3 fuel triangle, Allied reports of 109 with C-3 etc. This goes against your doubts of C-3 lack strongly...
Kurfürst - OKL, GdJ-Grp. Qu-, Br. B. Nr. 1561/45 g.Kdos. von 20. März 1945.
Yes you are entitled to your opinion. In the meantime, I ask you to post your sources about alleged lack of C-3 and MW-50.
Also the "accurate" figures you quoted for XIV are for prototype and not representative for serial production XIV. Gearing of engine was changed.
BTW anyone seen flight test for serial XIV?
I can find photos of K-4s with 87 fuel triangles:
And, of course, the DB 605DB/DC could be easily switched from one fuel type to another, so having a C-3 triangle didn't have mean that there was C3 in the tank.
On April 22 1945 Luftwaffenkommando West reported the following fuel stocks on airfields in Bavaria:
B-4 = 350,000 liters
C-3 = 284,000 liters
J-2 = 1,897,000 liters
On April 12, `45, Lw.Kdo. West had 42 FW 190As on-hand (Stab/JG300, II./JG300, Stab/NAGr.13), and 197 Bf 109s, (1./NAGr.13, 2./NAGr.13, 3./NAGr.13, Stab/JG53, II./JG53, III./JG53, IV./JG53, III./JG300, IV./JG300,1./NJG11).
110 of these Bf 109s were from Stab/JG53, II./JG53, III./JG53, IV./JG53.
III/JG 53 and IV/JG 53 had 73 Bf 109s with 75 fighter pilots on hand. These two Gruppe of JG 53 had been cleared for 1.98ata in 21 March 1945 by OKL, Lw.-Führüngstab, Nr. 937/45 gKdos.(op) 20.03.45.
In addition, KG 51 could muster 16 Me 262s, and 1.(F)/100 five Ar234s, and various other types (Ju88/188, Ju87, FW 189, Bf110)
As for the Allied Reports? Proves that there were supplies of C-3 for individual aircraft from June, July 1944 and January 1945; none of them indicates which units the 109s belonged to.
I can also find a March 1945 directive from the Führer's HQ halting production of the 109 and DB605 immediately, because of the fuel situation:
You also can't do a lot of flights with 350,000 litres of B-4. The relation is what counts. I doubt anyone denies an overall fuel shortage within the LW.Tante Ju, do you know how many flights could be flown with that 264,000 ltr of C3?
710 with 400 ltr
405 with 700 ltr
That is, if no Fw190A/F/Gs took any C3 fuel.