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43 photos and 16 illustrations tagged cutaway, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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macharvard said:
a rather unfortunate drawing, considering it shows the aircraft with the fin and rudder of the later NA-64. Neither type had an intake under the chin. Doug MacPhail
Mike Fletcher said:
the artist definitely had some trouble with the shape of the nose.

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Keith Slater said:
Excellent !
Paul Chapman said:
The elliptic wing planform...actually a "double ellipse" was designed to minimise induced (lift dependent) drag; the skewing of the ellipse was to get the local wing centre of pressure onto the unswept main spar ... this being a good thing for the structural design. This was based on the work of the German aerodynamicist Ludwig Prandtl whose work was published in 1934 just in time to contrbute to the Spitfire....nice case of international collaboration eh?
Mathias Perlet said:
Congrats on Explore!
Roiz Roiz said:
magnific....well done
Ilia Alshanetsky said:
remarkable!
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aerofifties said:
Wow!
Vahe Demirjian said:
The aircraft in this cutaway image is the XF2R, but actually represents the proposed but unbuilt XF2R-2 variant with the auxiliary General Electric J31 turbojet of the XF2R-1 replaced by one Westinghouse J34 turbojet. In addition to having the J34 in the tail empennage, the XF2R-2 shown in this cutaway image also differed from the XF2R-1 in having a squared-off vertical stabilizer, the wings with squared-off wingtips, and the air intakes for the turbojet on the sides of the forward fuselage rather than in the wing roots. A photo of a full-scale mockup of the XF2R-2 can be found at this link: www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/16155798100/