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cockpit

noun as in pilot compartment

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The cockpit insulation performance was 10% higher than the standards at the time because the pores in the insulating foam were 40% smaller, reaching a micrometer scale.

Airplane cockpits and ship bridges may share certain information and action features but were not historically described as dashboards.

A plane called Solar Impulse 2 went around the world over 14 months, but it could only hold the pilot in an unheated, unpressurized phone-booth-size cockpit whose single seat doubled as a toilet.

It has no cockpit because, obviously, it has no need of a pilot.

A series of small fires gave Yeager nightmares about being trapped in the cockpit surrounded by flames and unable to escape.

And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

I believe there was a captain aboard, but Hughes kept throwing him out of the cockpit.

He would navigate from the cockpit using a road atlas—while snorting cocaine off the map.

You will feel both embarrassed and grateful for this, even as you wonder why the cockpit looks like a 1950s sci-fi set.

Some airline chiefs believe that there was an invasion of the cockpit.

George, duke of Albemarle, captain-general of his majesty's forces, died at the cockpit.

The yacht nearly broached to, while the next oncoming wave broke fairly aboard, filling the cockpit half-full of water.

Then a wave would come aboard astern, rolling in and nearly filling the cockpit.

A very important fitting is a hatch by which the cockpit can be completely covered in in heavy weather.

The last occasion on which any part of Belgium, so long the 'Cockpit of Europe,' had a glimpse of war was in the autumn of 1870.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cockpit, such as: cabin, compartment, pit, and quarters.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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