Cut-Away Airliner Models

I like cut-away models, and I have just come across this series of short You Tube videos showing various cut-away model airliners, mainly with clear fuselage sides. Some include passengers, others have interior lighting.

Professionally made, in fairly large scales. The most spectacular is a 1/26th scale DC-7C - wow ! The level of detail is amazing.

Some lack wings, and only show the fuselage. The sort of thing you once saw in the windows of travel agents. Mostly prop-liners, but some jets.

In three Parts, plus a few others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td7pkbXU_ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODg0ZFyadQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOrPp7wZYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jde17MF_acA

An amazing, large scale Stratocruiser, and a book on collecting these display models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUhm9TpmN1c

I am still stunned by these models.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

INTO SPACE

I came across this colourful cutaway in a 1961 issue of TV Express and thought one or two of you might enjoy it. Back then most kids like me would have imagined space travel would have become common place by 2013 with  maybe passenger ships taking holiday makers to the moon and possibly beyond, giving ordinary people a chance to travel to a distant world. 

Since that picture appeared fifty two years ago we've landed 12 men on the moon, built space stations,  had re-usable shuttles come and go, and still use rockets like that to launch men, women and satellites into space, but apart from that no sign of package holidays to the Moon, and I can't see it happening anytime soon.