Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway, 1945

Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway 1945
Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway 1945
Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway 1945
Wright Cyclone Engine World War 2 Aircraft Cutaway 1945

This was a fictional Second World War aircraft meant to illustrate the Wright Cyclone engine (located in the engine cowling, #10) on a test flight.  The aircraft interior has been specially designed for testing.

Areas of this aircraft shown on the cutaway:

  1. Oxygen supply for crew.
  2. Movie camera recording instruments.
  3. Movie lights.
  4. Instrument panel.
  5. Flight observer and cathode ray detonation detector.
  6. Flight observer at engine operating temperature recorder.
  7. Radio equipment bay.
  8. Fuel volume meter.
  9. Pilot and observer co-pilot.
  10. The Wright Cyclone engine.

Popular Science October 1945

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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