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CUTAWAYS!! CUTAWAYS!! & more CUTAWAYS!!! ...

Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:30 pm

See if I can get these right.

Part 1

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Bell Aircraft A&P training on P-39 c 1940's

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Bell Aircraft P-39 cutaway c 1940's

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Republic Aircraft P-47 cutaway c 1940's

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Republic Aircraft P-47 cutaway c 1940's

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Martin-Mauler-cutaway

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Circa 1921. Cutaway model of an F5L flying boat at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington

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Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:35 pm

Part 2

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Bristol Fighter F-2B Cutaway Hendon museum

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CG-4A Air Mobility Command Museum

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CG-4A Air Mobility Command Museum

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F-86H Sabre Cutaway NMUSAF

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F-86H Sabre Cutaway NMUSAF

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Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:39 pm

Part 3

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Waco Hadrian CG-4A Yorkshire Air Museum te Elvington, UK

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Cutaway Jet Provost. A training aid for the apprentices at RAF Cosford

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Cutaway Mig 21 Luftwaffen Museum Gatow

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Cutaway Mig 21 Luftwaffen Museum Gatow

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Arado Ar 96 B-1 Deutsches Technik Museum Berlin-2

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Thu Feb 28, 2019 10:47 pm

Part 4

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PBY2 Cutaway National Naval Aviation Museum

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North American SNJ Texan cutaway National Naval Aviation Museum

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Cutaway of a Standard J-1, on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, OH

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B-25 Cutaway SAC museum

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Messerschmitt BF 109 G6 cutaway display at Technikmuseum Sinsheim, Germany

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This one slips my mind.

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Lockheed F-104G Starfighter Speyer

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Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:07 pm

I believe the YR-4 at the NASM was a cutaway.

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:29 am

Neat subject, thanks for posting! I have seen a few of these in person and spent a long time looking at the PBY especially. The F-1 with the Lucite bits sure is an interesting way to do it.

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:13 am

Fantastic!

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:47 am

There are a number of cutaways on display in China as well. Most with simple skin removal.

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:31 pm

Not a cutaway in that sense, but the same result
Vickers Wellington at Brooklands Museum

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:47 pm

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Fiat G-91R MM6280 Italian Air Force Museum

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Harbin H-5 Beagle (IL-28), Beijing Air and Space Museum

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PBY cutaway NMNA

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Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard IIB, Beijing Air and Space Museum

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Harvard Mk IIB (AT-16) FE499, a former RCAF machine and sold to the Chinese Air Force circa 1947

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Lockheed F-104G Technikmuseum Speyer

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Rolls-Royce Merlin V-1650-9 cut away

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Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:29 pm

Somebody please tell the Chinese how to paint a correct "star and bar"!
(Then again, I've seen U.S.-based aircraft...most recently a homebuilt with faux warbird scheme...almost as bad).

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Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:04 am

Quality subject and Quality photographs as usual.
Thank you. :drink3:

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Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:54 am

Very interesting Mark, thanks

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Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:34 am

A cutaway of a 2,000 hp Allison "G6" V-1710-145/147 engine (F-82), with auxiliary supercharger and Bendix "Speed-Density" fuel injection:

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Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:44 pm

Another fantastic photo subject set, thanks again Mark!! :supz:
A couple of thoughts:
It is interesting how much the fuselages have filled up in the progression of designs. One can see through a WWI and some WWII aircraft but by the time of the F-86 it is just packed.
Knowing that the riveted skin is part of the strength of the structure, I wonder how much sag or droop there is when an entire side of a fuselage is gone while sitting on the gear as the Mauler is.
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