Where did they put all the Fuel in the Mosquito ?

With 2 Merlin V12s, a top speed of over 400mph and a range of 1300 miles the Mosquito needed a lot of fuel.
People often ask where the fuel was kept so we made this video to explain.

[@hardsums32]

Lovely video and thanks for the gallons. Many brilliant video's these days have the edge taken by metric units. I dunno if producers think it's cool or what but it really gets my goat when a British aircraft that was not built flown or operated in metric is described in metric.. Anyway, keep the videos coming; you can do it in cubits, I'll still watch them.

[@rudolfabelin383]

Thanks!
My father was a friend of John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham for many decades. They met at de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School just before the war. Just a while ago, going through my fathers notes I found an entry on John Cunningham. It was a technical thing my father needed help with and then he ran into John Cunningham at Farnborough (the air show) who was exactly the right person to discuss the matter with.
Both me and my father are Swedish. My father passed many years ago.

[@cmdredstrakerofshado1159]

Besides innovation of the Mosquito's Wing tanks being made of plywood or paper mache and being made of lighter materials they could squeeze in a extra 10 to 20 gallons extra of fuel compared to same volume Aluminum drop tanks ( the USAF Europe copied the paper mache wing drop tanks for their P51 Mustangs, P47 Thunderbolts, which many where actually manufactured in the UK for USAF) . The Mossie's drop tanks were the 1st generation low drag conformal wing tanks which are all the rage these days on F16 and F15 and other modern fighter jets. The lower drag of the Mossie's conformal drop tanks gave their crews more extended range than the high drag tanks and attachment systems used on the P51, P47, P38, or even SpitFire, Typhoo, Tempest, etc... .

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Spitfires had 'conformal' external fuel tanks.

[@tonybarnes3658]

Thanks for such a straight forward easy to follow answer. Appreciate

[@bfmcarparts]

02:00 Nice to see a memento of RR299...

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks.

[@dovidell]

Nicely narrated , at a vocal speed most people , even " foreigners " could understand , but it would have been nice to include a metric equivalent when talking about fuel capacities and operational ranges

[@deHavMuseum]

That is a very valid point about metric equivalents. We need to do that in future videos. Thanks for your feedback.

[@rudolfabelin383]

@@deHavMuseum Good point!
Imp gallon = 4.54 litre (please note my British spelling)
US gallon = 3.79 liter (US spelling 🙂)
So an American hearing X gallons also has his own interpretation.

[@dovidell]

@@rudolfabelin383 👍👍

[@Slaktrax]

Imp gallons to litres divide by 0.22 ...Exercise your brain. 🙂

[@rudolfabelin383]

@@Slaktrax Indeed. However I'm better at memorising (UK spelling 🙂) the original values.
Best regards from Sweden.
Rudolf Abelin
MS ME

[@marttimattila9561]

And what sort of Callons we are hearing here.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

Real 4.55 litre gallons. If he meant U.S. 3.8 litre gallons he would have specified that.

[@Rhaman68]

The use of pronouns on titles is to be avoided. “Where was fuel stored in a Mosquito?” Thanks for the report.