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Originally Posted by indiaman  Also it will be worth remembering that Germany's WW2 Junkers JU88 high altitude bomber were fitted with the vertically opposed piston Jumo Diesel engines,German diesels have always been in the forefront of innovation and sound engineering. |
I think you'll find that it was the Ju86 bombers that used the Jumo 205/207 Diesel engines.
Ju88s used the Jumo 211, which ran on 87 octane petrol.
Even then it's worth considering that the original Jumo 205s were inadequate to the task, the turbo-charged Jumo 207 being the engine adopted for the high altitude variant.