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Category: Cutaway Drawings and Cross-Sections

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

  • Titan Missile Underground Launch Complex Cutaway

    Titan Missile Underground Launch Complex

    The Titan II Missile Underground Launch Complex (Large Image) is classic Cold War-era cutaway stuff.  At the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona, you can tour the entire facility.  As their brochure states:

    The Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the first liquid propellant missile that could be launched from underground. Equipped with a nine-megaton thermonuclear warhead, the Titan II was capable of reaching its target—more than half a world away—in less than thirty minutes. The preserved Titan II missile site, officially known as complex 571-7, was completed and turned over to the U.S. Air Force in 1963. Until 1987, when the last Titan II was deactivated, 54 Titan II
    missile complexes across the United States stood “on alert” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    A cutaway from Fortune Magazine (1960) is a bit more artful and fanciful, and looks more like the cover of a sci-fi paperback than a true cutaway:

  • Cutaway Hotel Video

    What do you do with a cutaway hotel?  I haven’t the faintest idea.  I tossed together some amateur motion-tracking shots and a soundtrack to come up with this.

  • Scorpene Submarine Cutaway

    We have a rather nice cutaway of the Scorpene submarine from Defense Industry Daily. We also have an extra-large cutaway of the entire Scorpene submarine.

  • Hotel Cutaway Drawing, 1947

    This great cutaway originally comes from a July 5, 1947 Saturday Evening Post ad for Armstrong’s Industrial Insulation.  For an extra-sized view, click here and then click a second time on the magnifying glass.

    The ad says, in part:

    When you look behind the scenes, a modern hotel is an astounding place.  Few guests appreciate that their comfort demands such a complex and highly mechanized institution.  The men (1) who ordered ice probably don’t know that there’s a complete ice-making plant (12) hidden away in the basement.  The dancers in the ballroom (5) don’t stop to think what it takes to provide air conditioning (11).  Touch a spigot (2) and ice water spurts out.  Turn a valve (4) and heat is waiting.  Heat and cold flow through the hotel like lifeblood in its veins.  Insulation on the pipes makes it economically possible to put heat and cold where they are needed.

    Cutaways don’t get any better than this one.  I’m trying to be an upright and honest Web citizen, but I cannot find the attribution for this photo.  Here is the original source.

  • Closeup of Flying Boat (Generic) Cutaway, 1935

    Looking inside the Popular Mechanics 1935 “Flying Boat”:

    Kitchen

    Welsh rarebit coming right up.  Note the ladder leading up to the wing.

    Bar

    The cover is sharp and crystal-clear.  It’s my scanner that blurred the picture.  A real-life bartender whipping up a gin gimlet for a guy in a suit.

    Sleeping Quarters

    Except for those bunk beds, which you are undoubtedly sharing with a stranger, a most civilized way to travel.

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