"Al" wrote in message
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Did any of the WW2 aircraft use Nitrous Oxide injection? Race aircraft?

Al

The Germans used nitrous in the Me-109 and the FW-190 as well, if I recall
correctly. They had to go to unusual measures because their petroleum
industry couldn't produce useful quantities of high-test avgas.

More recently, Bruce Bohannon used nitrous in a couple of aircraft he used
for time to climb and altitude attempts - Pushy Galore and the (Exxon)
Flying Tiger. Pushy's 0-200 was fairly happy on nitrous, but he had a
couple of nasty engine failures on the 0-540 in the Tiger and switched to
forced air induction.