The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-27

directly to Keep Elm Flying"
 Flying faster and higher and more
 extensively than can Axis planes.
 You will do it by making a very
 small sacrifice-merely using
 slightly lower quality of gas for
 your car, leaving the highest
 fuel for your warplanes. The ar-
 ticle below, written exclusively for
 The Waterbury Democrat and
 NEA Service, tells you how and
 why.
 By NEA Service
 Washington, Jan. 27 When your car seems to puff a little hard CT pulling up hills, if she burns a bit more gasoline to the mile, if there's an occasional knock in the motor that wasn't there before you can smile proud and patriotic smile. For if your gasoline doesn't give the performance you're accus- toned to, you'll have helped to keep 'em flying"
 The best gasoline in the world "10O-octane aviation gasoline" - gives Uncle Sam,s pilots the added speed range, bomb-load capacity and ceiling that provide the mar gin between victory and defeat in the air.
 To keep that gasoline flowing, towering the motors of the thou sands of planes which Uncle Sam aims to build, means that Americas motorists are going to have to sac rifice a certain amount of quality in their automobile gasolines, because 100-octane gasoline draws up some of the chemical compounds that go into ordinary motoring gasoline.
 Approximately four years ago, tn test-tubes and the complicated apparatus of the gasoline labora- tory put novelty on the market. It was a gasoline composed of a number of components that had a higher knocking point" and yielded more power than any other gaso- line ever produced. It was "100-oc- tane.'
 WHY AIR FORCE NEEDS
 OUR BEST GASOLINE
 Today, 1O0-octane is a military must" for our growing air force. It makes possible more powerful engines that weigh less; it gives our planes faster rates of climb; greater maneuverability and enables our bombers to carry heavier loads. It is made in quantity only in the United States, and it now powers the planes of our Allies as well as our own. The Axis powers cannot make this super-fuel.
 Already 1OO-octane aviation gas- oline has played a leading role in the brilliant feats of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps birdmen in the Battle of the Pacific. Already it has been an important element in car- rying the Royal Air Force to do- minance in Western Europe.
 Its priceless advantages-can be utilized in any one of three ways; or-aS in the case in actual practice in combination of the three: It can be used for greater power at takeoff. It can be used for main- taining speed and power at higher attitudes (enabling flyer to get "on top" of his enemy and out maneuver him in battle). It can be used for longer range per gallon, meaning that one of our planes could travel many miles further using 100- octane than it could using 91-octane or less-as the enemy must.
 Actual comparisons of the fuel are difficult because it can't be used to advantage in any engine: the en- zine must be designed to utilize it. However, engineers have calculated that, if two ships were built iden- tically, except for their engines, one to use 91-octane and the other to use 100- -octane, the later could:
 Develop approximately 26 per cent more power at takeoff.
 Or, maintain its maximum speed at 1900 feet higher altitude.
 Or, use about 100 gallons less gas oline-about CTS pounds (which weight could be put into bombs, guns or ammunition on 600-mile trip. HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL GIVE OUR AIRMEN
 One of the very important ad- vantages which 100-octane offers is the chance to use lighter engines. For example, a 1750-horsepoWer en- zine, designed to use 100-octane gas- oline, weighs about 280O pounds with