| 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 |
| CIVIL AVIATION Cutaways of the first true airliners through to the A380 Civil aviation 1903-1948 Civil aviation 1949-2006 |
| BUSINESS AND GENERAL AVIATION Cutaways of the first GA aircraft of the 1930s through to the most modern business jets Business aviation General aviation |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 to the flightglobal.com cutaway web page.
Over the coming months this site will gradually host all the cutaways, technical artwork and general arrangement (GA) drawings published within Flight, Flight International and The Aeroplane over the last 100 years and will ultimately represent three-quarters of the world's aerospace cutaway images.
Technical illustrations and cutaway drawings were developed at the turn of the 20th century to help people understand the ever-increasing number of mechanical and technical innovations in everyday life and the subsequent mechanically-biased publications that emerged would become the catalyst for this new art form.
These were spearheaded by two publishing houses in the UK, Temple Press and Iliffe, both of which would slowly built up world eminent titles such as, The Autocar, Flight, The Aeroplane, Commercial Motor and Yachting. Within their two in-house studios, individual artists would specialise in illustrating items as far ranging as locomotives, oilrigs, tankers, farm machinery and nuclear power stations, as well as aerospace subjects.
An important source of contemporary technical data and artwork from incept in 1908, the Flight team truly pioneered the art of the cutaway illustration under the leadership of Max Millar.
Cutaways as we know them today first appeared at the end of the 1920s, following a decade of highly detailed sectional illustrations and sketches. The aircraft cutaway, cut-away, ghost illustration, glass aircraft or even "Flight-style drawing," as they have been called, have developed to keep pace not only with new technologies and aeronautical trends, but also in their ability to better inform the aviation industry and the enthusiast equally as to the aeronautical state-of-the-art.
Flight International is now the last technical magazine in the world to retain a dedicated in-house cutaway and technical editorial art department, together with the archive it has built-up through the century.
To date, over 1,100 cutaways have been produced by Flight International and The Aeroplane, before its collection was absorbed into Flight in the early 1960s.
Around eight to10 new cutaways and micro cutaways are published each year and added to this growing collection, one that covers the full span of powered flight, from the 1903 Wright Flyer to the Airbus A380.
The galleries presented here will grow to reflect the complete collection of cutaways and artwork, all of which will be available for purchase in the form of individual screen savers, posters and prints through to billboard-sized images (over 5m wide) suitable for industrial, public relations, marketing, publishing and sales purposes.
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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