cockpit

Example Sentences

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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

From the cockpit of the Voyager we watched the shimmering lights of Cyprus fade into the distance.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

AFP pictures showed the heavily damaged nose and cockpit section of the Air Canada Express plane, which had arrived from Montreal, on the tarmac flanked by emergency vehicles with their lights flashing.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Milton said the new plane will feature a touch screen cockpit interface the company is designing itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

But she was pretty sure that when planes landed, the pilots stayed in the cockpit for a while filling out paperwork or something.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix