Kids today can't do that - they have to rely on 3-D blue-prints.
Tough when you're trying to repair an aircraft out in the boonies with no internet connection and all you have is paper mechanical drawings and electrical schematics.
Back when they gave multiple intelligence tests to students, I always scored highest in spatial ability. I also took mechanical and architectural drafting and excelled. Now everything is CAD. That ability comes in handy in other areas as well...like organization, math and sentence structure and grammar. I teach English, so when I teach writing I always teach formulaic writing. Most students who struggle can always use my formulas for writing! Some think it’s OCD, but it’s how I have always functioned.
As a lifelong tool and die and CNC machinist (now retired), who has struggled to train younger people in the trade, I know exactly what you’re talking about. We’re losing Lots of very important skills.
Or look at a topo map and see hills, valleys and ridges.
Pilots probably are the epitome because they're dealing with objects on the ground moving beneath them (but not necessarily to each other) in addition to conflicting aircraft moving around them in different altitudes and directions, all with no relationship to how the ground is moving.
Military types, especially infantry, also develop a keen sense of spatial relations. Most almost subconsciously perpetually keep track of which way is north.
Spatial awareness was said to be Gretzky's defining attribute. At any instant, he knew where all the other 15 people on the ice were.