Mosquito Fuselage Width
- Thread starter Zipper730
- Start date
Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
The maximum width is 53" and maximum height not including canopy 65.5", dimensions from Mosquito FB Mk VI maintenance manual. Both dimensions occur slightly behind the cockpit.
- Thread starter
- #3
Is the manual on this site?
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
I do not know. The full title of the manual I have is:
A.P.2019E Volume I
Mosquito FB VI Aircraft
Servicing and Descriptive Handbook
The LiTOT website has a design analysis which has the dimensions also.
A.P.2019E Volume I
Mosquito FB VI Aircraft
Servicing and Descriptive Handbook
The LiTOT website has a design analysis which has the dimensions also.
- Thread starter
- #5
Yeah, I found it. I'm curious if the discrepancy in wing area (440 vs 454) is due to the wing-root radiator?
Not my bag but could also be the area of the nacelles, which are only "wing" on the top surface.
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
I scaled the drawing below and calculated the areas and I think Zipper730 is probably correct. Incidentally, I could not get a large enough area to account for the 508 ft2 number given in the manual for total area, unless I added the flap areas to the 454 ft2. But since the Mosquito used plain flaps (not Fowler or Fairey-Youngman) there is no reason to add the flap areas to get the gross wing area.
Last edited:
Crimea_River
Marshal
The 508 might have counted the area of the wing covered by the fuselage. It's a 1 piece wing and the upper surface extends through the fuselage.
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
The area of 454 ft2 is the gross area and includes the area of the fuselage. The distance from the wing leading edge over the radiators to the aft edge of the wing chord is ~14 ft, and the average width of the fuselage between the upper wing root lines is ~3.75 ft. If you subtract the area of the fuselage from the gross area you get ~402 ft2 for the net wing area. I am thinking that whoever ran the numbers for the manual (or whoever the person preparing the manual got the numbers from) added the flap areas to the main swing area in error. In all(?) the other British manuals I have seen, while the flap areas are listed, they are included the gross wing area - with the exception of aircraft fitted with Fowler or Fairey-Youngman type flaps, where they add the increase in wing area due to the rearward extension of the flaps.
Last edited:
Crimea_River
Marshal
But your red lines include the flaps too.
EDIT: This is from AP2653N Part I for the B.35:
EDIT: This is from AP2653N Part I for the B.35:
Last edited:
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
Sorry, I should have thought to post the original page. Here it is:
ThomasP
Senior Master Sergeant
Whoops! Ignore my comments on the 508 ft2 value. I just noticed that the 508 is actually 50.8. DOH!! It is early morning here and I have not been to bed yet.
So the manual has the wing area listed as 436.7 ft2, which is close to the 440 ft2 that Zipper730 mentioned above, and close to what I found if I leave out the leading edge area over the radiators.
Edited my posts above.
So the manual has the wing area listed as 436.7 ft2, which is close to the 440 ft2 that Zipper730 mentioned above, and close to what I found if I leave out the leading edge area over the radiators.
Edited my posts above.
