I reproduce this Popular Mechanics cover of April 1935 in all of its ball-throbbing glory–because that is the only way to describe the muscularity of 1930s popular journalism. There is nothing I don’t like about this cover. I love the orange and blue contrast, the NRA Code logo in the bottom left, the typography, and most of all, the cutaway airplane.
Cutaways – you can get lost in them, imagining yourself inside. Models, miniatures, cutaways – pretty much a lost art today.
I will pick apart this cutaway in separate posts. See here to look further inside the Flying Boat airplane.
