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US
/ˈkɑkˌpɪt/
]
[ UK /kˈɒkpɪt/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒkpɪt/ ]
NOUN
- compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft
- seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car
- a pit for cockfights
How To Use cockpit In A Sentence
- How about how the door of your car opens as you back up from the burnout to let burnout smoke escape the cockpit?
- I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
- Then the You-Know-What Hits the Fan: The marlin leaps out of the water — almost as if to see where the angler is — then it suddenly tail-walks straight to the cockpit and knocks Schultz out of the fighting chair with 500 pounds of fury. Video Gallery: When Animals Attack
- Features of the CH-53K helicopter include: a joint interoperable glass cockpit; fly-by-wire flight controls; fourth generation rotor blades with anhedral tips; a low-maintenance elastomeric rotor head; upgraded engines; a locking cargo rail system; external cargo handling improvements; survivability enhancements; and reduced operation and support costs. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- Because there are no timeouts other than a caution period here and there, drivers are strapped into cockpits that are more like saunas for three to four hours.
- As well, the pilot of each was enclosed in a glassed-in cockpit.
- Fiebelkorn was interested to learn that Fuller's plane, which bears his name outside the cockpit, is on display at the National Air and Space Fuller, Robert B.
- This is about as close to an aeronautic, glass-cockpit design as has appeared in the mass market, and it will definitely sell some cars. Detroit Show's Soundtrack: America the Beautiful
- That feeling is produced by the cockpit-like design and the nimble driving dynamics that Mazda, a unit of Ford Motor Co., has been able to coax out of the chassis, which is also used in the Ford Edge. Mazda's CX-9 Crossover
- Strapped into the tight confines of the cockpit the driver has only one means of non-verbal expression - wobbling his head.