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Category: Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections

Cutaway and cross-section drawings of vehicles, weapons, submarines, airplanes, buildings, and more.

  • Super-G Constellation Cutway, 1955

    Super-G Constellation Cutaway, 1955
    Super-G Constellation Cutaway, 1955

    A fine cutway from 1955 by famed illustrator Rolf Klep, of a Super-G Constellation.

    This is actually part of an amazing double-spread from a LIFE magazine, showing both this aircraft and the oceanliner Cristoforo Columbo.

    Accompanying text notes that the Constellation had a flexible seating arrangement.  In this drawing, tourist class passengers occupied the forward compartment, while first class passengers enjoyed reclining seats with foot rests in the middle compartment.

    The Super G was produced from 1951 to 1958.

    Source: LIFE Jun 27, 1955

  • Consolidated Vultee Clipper (PanAm) Cutaway, 1945

    Consolidated Vultee Clipper For PanAm Cutaway, 1945

    I’m not certain when this Rolf Klep cutaway was produced, but the magazine text mentions that V-E Day was upcoming, so I’ll put it at 1945.

    This 160 ton aircraft was expected to be able to take 200 passengers from New York to London in 9 hours.

    Consolidated ventured that it would build about 15 Vultee Clippers for PanAm immediately following the War.

    Vultee Clipper Cockpit Cutaway, ca 1945

     

     

     

  • Atomic Submarine Engine Testing Sphere Cutaway, 1952

    Atomic Submarine Engine Sphere Cutaway 1952

    This cutaway, drawn by Rolf Klep in 1952, is of a $2 million, 225 foot diameter steel hull built in Schenectady, NY.

    Essentially, it was a spherical proving ground for an atomic engine that would be installed in a submarine.  GE scientists would have:

    1. Built the engine.
    2. Encased that engine in a section of submarine hull.
    3. Submerged that hull section in a water tank.
    4. Built this giant steel hull, with its 1,364 X-ray-checked welds, around everything to contain potential leaks.

    Source: LIFE Dec 15, 1952

  • New York World’s Fair 1939 Perisphere and Trylon Cutaway

    New York World’s Fair 1939 Perisphere Cutaway

    The symbol and centerpiece of the 1939 New York World’s Fair was its combination trylon and perisphere.  The trylon was a 610 foot tall tower, whose bottom section provided entrance for the adjoining 190 foot diameter perisphere.

    This circa 1938 cutaway was drawn prior to completion of the trylon and perisphere.  It shows how visitors would take escalators up through the trylon and be deposited on two “doughnut-shaped moving platforms,” as LIFE puts it, to watch a 6 minute show focusing on a futuristic, utopian City of Tomorrow.

    Source: LIFE Aug 1, 1938

  • Disneyland Matterhorn Cutaway, 2012

    A nice, recent cutaway drawing of the Matterhorn at the Anaheim, CA Disneyland.  This graphic, from the February 8, 2012, Orange County Register, shows remodels to the Bavarian-influenced concrete “rock.”

    One of the most notable and largest changes was filling in many of the large openings, including the large one that allowed passage of the now-discontinued Skyway.

    This cutaway also shows the secret Matterhorn basketball court.

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