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A cockpit is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large airliners are also physically separated from the cabin.
Cockpit as a term for the pilot's compartment in an aircraft first appeared in 1914. From about 1935 cockpit also came to be used informally to refer to the driver's seat of a car, especially a high performance one, and this is official terminology in Formula One. The term is most likely related to the sailing term for the coxswain's station in a Royal Navy ship, and later the location of the ship's rudder controls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit_(aviation)
Also, consider the slang meaning in English of "cock", in context of holding a control stick in an aircraft that is located between ones legs.
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∙ 15y agoThe cockpit on an aeroplane is the area in which the pilot is seated and controls the plane.
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Do either 747 or A380 aircraft have a flight engineer?
The 747 and A380 both have a flight engineer on board as well as a flight supervisor who has an office behind the cockpit.
A sentence using the word cockpit?
The pilot always has to sit at a cockpit.
What cockpit control does a pilot use to control altitude?
Aircraft have two controls that are used together to control altitude.The elevator is used to increase the nose up pitch of the aircraft and it starts to climbThe throttle must then be increased so the air craft will continue at the speed needed to climbThe throttle can be used only in some aircraft but it is not a real stable usable thing, the elevator must be used to stabilise the aircraftTo descend oer maintain altitude the same controls are used together.
What do you call the glass casingcover on a cockpit?
The canopy. (can-uh-pee)
What is a fuselage?
Answer The functions of an Aircraft fuselage include some or all of the following: Support structure for wings and tail. Structure that contains the cockpit for the pilot. Structure that allows aircaft to carry cargo, passengers, and equipment.
What is the opposite of cockpit?
Where the cockpit is near the front, the opposite end of an aircraft is the tail. (Where the cockpit is on the top, the opposite is the undercarriage. In a passenger aircraft, the opposite of the cockpit or control area is the passenger area, or cabin.)
What is a helm of a aircraft?
The front of the aircraft AKA: The Cockpit
Where is the Cockpit on Poptropica?
The cockpit in an aircraft is the part where the pilot sits.
In what part of the aircraft does the pilot sit in?
the cockpit
Where does the pilot of an aircraft sit?
In the cockpit of the aircraft. Typically near the nose of the craft.
What is the area usually near the front of an aircraft from where a pilot controls the aircraft called?
The cockpit is where the pilot controls the aircraft.
What is the origin of the word cockpit?
A cockpit is what it says: a pit in which game-cocks are placed in order to provoke them to fight.
Origin Of Names of the World War 1 aircraft Sopwith Camel?
Sopwith was the name of the factory owner - Sopwith Aviation Company. It was called the Camel because of a hump near the cockpit.
What instrument in the cockpit tells the pilot that the aircraft is established on the localizer?
ldo
What is a flight cockpit?
Its the area of a aircraft that has the controls and operational systems to fly the craft
What is a canopy in a jet?
A canopy is the name for the clear plexiglass cover of the cockpit.
Why do air force planes taxi with their cockpit open?
I know in a non-military plane the cockpit can get very hot inside when not flying because the cooling of the cockpit is brought by the highspeed movement of the aircraft. So I would imagine that it is because its uncomfortable in the heat if the cockpit is closed.
