Cutaways
Flight Cutaways and technical art
| MILITARY AVIATION Military fixed wing cutaways ranging from the First World War through to the F-35 Military aviation 1903-1945 Military aviation 1946-2006 |
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CIVIL AVIATION Cutaways of the first true airliners through to the A380 Civil aviation 1903-1948 Civil aviation 1949-2006 |
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BUSINESS AND GENERAL AVIATION Cutaways of the first GA aircraft of the 1930s through to the most modern business jets Business aviation General aviation |
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AERO ENGINES From the first aero engines to the largest fan engines, this collection represents the most complete engine cutaway collection in the world Piston engines Jet engines |
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ROTARY WING The rotary wing collection covers the industry from the autogiro to the MV-22B tiltrotor Military helicopters Civil helicopters |
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EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT, MISSILES, UAVs, SPACE SYSTEMS AND MISCELLANEOUS Various experimental aircraft, missile and space systems cutaways are within the collection, ranging from the 1903 Wright Flyer, ejection seats and UAVs, to the Ariane 5 Experimental Missiles and space systems
GLIDERS Currently featuring the Olympia family of unpowered aircraft, to be updated with more as teh archive grows. Gliders |
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AIRSHIPS AND HOVERCRAFT Several Airship cutaways and more than 50 hovercraft cutaways were produced with in our sister magazine Air-Cushion Vehicle. These will be published soon. Hovercraft Airships |
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CUTAWAY POSTERS Over the years many of Flight's cutaways have appeared in poster format for manufactures, marketing and sales purposes. With the increase in complexity and size of aircraft and aeroengines, coupled with an increase in detail demanded by our ever discerning customers, the decision to publish the cutaways in posters format rather than double-page spreads or gatefolds was made in the 1995. Almost 100 cutaway posters have been published to date and following tests with colour posters in the late 1990s the move to colour posters was made. Very soon all of flights posters will be available to view on this page. |
Welcome Flight's Cutaway collection. Below are links through to our Cutaway galleries and background information about our little online Cutaway project:
Cutaway gallery quick links:
• Aeroengines - Pistons
• Aeroengines - Jet
• Agricultural Aircraft
• Airships
• Business Aircraft Cutaways
• Business Aircraft Posters
• Civil Aircraft 1903-1948
• Civil Aircraft 1949-2006
• General Aviation
• Gliders
• Hovercraft
• Microcutaways - Posters
• Military Aviation 1903-1945
• Military Aviation 1946-2006
• NBAA Cutaways
• NBAA Posters
• Rotary-wing Aircraft - Military
• Rotary-wing Aircraft - Civil
• Space Systems
• Experimental Aircraft
• UAVs
Flight Cutaway background information
Welcome Flight's online Cutaway collection.
We have been beavering away scanning and cleaning up many of the 1,100 original Flight International and The Aeroplane cutaway drawings held in our collection, which is no easy task as many of the drawings are over 5ft wide, 3ft deep and the total weight of the collection is measured in tons!
The current offering comprises of 800 additional Flight International Cutaways and Micro-cutaways on the site. With many more cutaways to come, this marks the beginning of several interesting and special projects planned for the Cutaway online collection and the lead up to Flight’s centenary celebrations.
Of particular interest in this upload are the inclusion of almost 40 agricultural aircraft, airships and hovercraft Cutaways. The Agricultural aircraft section shines some light on the highly specialised world of crop-dusting, including the post-war (1946) Auster Agricola through to the ultimate Piper Pawnee Brave PA-36.
The airships section also spans the ages with the 1936 Zeppelin LZ-129 “Hindenburg” through to the Airbus-Industries AD300 Airship of 1979.
Perhaps the strangest category of cutaways to be includes within the Flightglobal collection are those of the hovercraft. The “apparent” burgeoning hovercraft industry of the late 1950’s saw the launch of the “Air-Cushion Vehicles” title within Flight between 1962 and 1968. More than 30 hovercraft cutaways would be published within the magazine, ranging from one-man vehicles through to the 160 ton, 250-passenger cross-channel Westland SR-N4 high-speed hovercraft!
We are gradually moving the Cutaways over to our AirSpace photo galleries which is an important developmental step in allowing us to offer the Cutaways for purchase and download.
If you have any questions concerning the cutaways and their usage, please feel free to contact me.
Giuseppe "Joe" Picarella
Senior Technical Artist
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