cockpit
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While most of the other pilots were interested in aerobatics, Dallin volunteered to take on a reconnaissance mission with a camera mounted behind the cockpit.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
It did not, however, contain transcripts of voice recordings from the cockpit.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
The donor said her husband, whose picture is in the cockpit of the Endeavour, would have been very proud — if a little embarrassed — that his name is on the new building.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
When the F-15E came under fire on Friday, the aircrew pulled their ejection handle, which blew the canopy, blasted the seats out of the cockpit and deployed their parachutes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
It would probably surprise us more, and be an even funnier story, if the mice in the cockpit had upset Aleksandr Gridnev rather than Zhenya Prokhorova.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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