cockpit
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Young Anakin’s podracer, a striped cockpit strapped to twin shuttlecock engines, stretches down one side of an aisle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A few hundred yards away, the cockpit window of Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon fills the dunes of Tatooine, then the towers of Coruscant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Airbus has similarly shut two sites in Salaunes and Mérignac, where it makes critical components ranging from cockpit seat structures to fuselage sections, nose cones and wing flaps for its lineup of commercial aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
On board the plane was a cockpit crew of eight people from Airbus's testing division, accompanied by two Qantas pilots.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Dr. Loofah shouts over the thumping blades roaring outside the cockpit bubble.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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Based in a converted Second World War hangar overlooking San Francisco Bay, the start-up makes self-flying aircraft without cockpits, designed either to spray crops or deliver cargo.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
It also plans to embed more artificial intelligence, including in its central computing and software, in its vehicle cockpits, and via an autonomous driving system.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency also now requires at least two pilots in cockpits of commercial planes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
At the age of 40, Sanchez pivoted from news desks to cockpits and became a licensed helicopter pilot which she says was inspired by her father who was a flight instructor.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
The aircraft came closer, so that the boys could make out the markings on the wings and the white helmets of the pilots in the cockpits.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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