WWII Aircraft Cross Sections--Spitfire, Hurricane, Beaufighter, Lancaster (!) and Stirling.

JF Ptak Science Books    Post 1165

Here are some fabulous examples of technological cross sections from the collection here--this part concenrtrating on some of the British WWII aricraft.  The drawings are just superb, and you can easily get lost in them, following the geogrpahy of engineering detail from one logical place to the next. All of these images were published in The Illustrated London News and appeared 1940-1943.

And the detail (sorry for that--the originals are much larger than the scanning bed would allow...)

The Hawker Hurricane:

And the detail:

And the Lancaster:
And Lancaster details:

And the Stirling:

With detail:

And the Beaufighter: