1940s – Page 2 – Invisible Themepark

WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit, 1945

A cutaway within a cutaway. Drawn by Stewart Rouse, this illustrates a generic WWII fighter plane peeled back to show the pilot […]

In 1940, it was asked if we might be driving a car like this in only two years. The novel cutaway turned […]

A gorgeous picture of a Quonset hut from 1946, touted by Popular Science as a possible “stop gap” to the immediate post […]

Famed Palomar Observatory, just outside of San Diego, CA, had not yet been finished at the time this cutaway drawing was published. […]

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 […]

The RAF’s Typhoon was termed an “Engine With Wings” by Popular Science because of its 2,200 horsepower, 24 cylinder power plant–a […]

The R.A.F. Mosquito was a zippy, nimble aircraft, its fuselage built of plywood on a balsa wood core and its wings […]

What to call these men who, in decades past, did fearsome things for a purpose and did so with utter aplomb? While […]

One of the great things about the old Fortune magazine was how it often treated extremely mundane subjects with great wonder and […]

This great cutaway originally comes from a July 5, 1947 Saturday Evening Post ad for Armstrong’s Industrial Insulation. For an extra-sized view, […]