Russian or western allies air force?

After the defeat of the Nazis, which air force would win: Commies or Western? :

  • Red air force is superior

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • Western Allies air force is superior

    Votes: 61 85.9%
  • Stalemate

    Votes: 7 9.9%

  • Total voters
    71
  • Poll closed .
it isn't the avgas, its the additives. The Allied Air Forces fought most of World War II with 100% Octane gasoline, while the Axis had to make do with 87% octane (with rare exceptions).

This is a myth;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#World_War_II_and_octane_ratings

Wikipedia said:
A common misconception exists concerning wartime fuel octane numbers. There are two octane numbers for each fuel, one for lean mix and one for rich mix, rich being greater. The misunderstanding that German fuels had a lower octane number (and thus a poorer quality) arose because the Germans quoted the lean mix octane number for their fuels while the Allies quoted the rich mix number. Standard German high-grade 'C-3' aviation fuel used in the later part of the war had lean/rich octane numbers of 100/130. The Germans listed this as a 100 octane fuel, the Allies as 130 octane.
After the war, the US Navy sent a technical mission to Germany to interview German petrochemists and examine German fuel quality. Its “Technical Report 145-45 Manufacture of Aviation Gasoline in Germany” reported the results of , chemical analysis of the different fuels, and concluded, “Toward the end of the war, the quality of fuel being used by the German fighter planes was quite similar to that being used by the Allies.”
 
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