Wallis Autogyro Cutaway
Flightglobal has scanned, digitized and made available every issue of Flight Magazine published between 1909 and 2005 – that’s 100 years of aviation history! Most notably, they have a section of the archives devoted to cutaways, where these images were found.
Some are full-color but most are linear, with exceptional control over line density and overall image balance—keep in mind that these were most likely done traditionally on vellum or illustration board with a technical pen!
Rolls Royce Dart Convair Conversion Cutaway
Bell XV 15 Cutaway
Airbus AD300 Airship Cutaway
Spacelab Cutaway
Westland Hovercraft Cutaway
Great find!
Gotta hand it to people who did this on paper…
Fantastic images!!
Classic line art at it’s finest. Very nice.
testing 1, 2, 3…
I’ve got a Flight 2003 calendar that I kept with similar illustrations – each one an amazing piece of work. The art ranges from the 1950’s onwards. I understand some of the paper originals were over 5′ in width.
One of the artists represented in the calender – Giuseppe “Joe” Picarella is, I believe, still the senior technical artist at Flight. how about
getting a profile / interview with him?
Mike