How did the Germans boost the speeds of the late model Messerschmitt BF 109s so high? The short answer is with MW 50 methanol-water injection. This video is long and technical, but if you wan't the long answer, please watch. I'll cover C3 fuel, and Methanol Water injection in great detail, and how the systems were set up in the BF109 G14, G14 AS, G10, and K4

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The concepts in two of my previous videos are important for this video, they are:

P51 Manifold pressure:    • P51 Mustang Manifold Pressure  

BF109G vs P51D in speed:    • Why was the BF109 so slow compared wi...  

Source for the Goering comment: http://speedreaders.info/2224-ricardo/

Other sources are NACA, as usual for my videos, and kurfurst.org for various testing reports. That involved a lot of google translate as a lot of it is in German.


Those PSI number at about 13:50 are MANIFOLD PRESSURE IN INCHES HG, NOT PSI. My mistake there.