However, devices with the approximate complexity of a VCR are ubiquitous and have found their way into emergency rooms, airplane cockpits, power plants, and so on.
These features, along with a flush-riveted, butt-joined aluminum fuselage, an enclosed cockpit, and power-driven retractable landing gear folding flush into the wing, anticipated the configuration, appearance, and performance of the fighters of World War II.
And, Mr. Vogt noted, the flight data recorder captures someone in the cockpit cutting engine power.
IN HIS five years as Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari has often expressed alarm at the prospect of his battered country becoming a cockpit for a power struggle between the Americans and their regional enemies, Iran and Syria.
Because of Lebanon's position as a cockpit for regional power struggles, it also reverberated further afield, from Washington to the Iranian capital, Tehran.It was natural that this latest turmoil should carry echoes of the civil war.
When the anchors took to walking around their evening-news sets in New York, leaving behind the traditional power cockpit of the mission-control-size anchor desk, it amounted to almost an avant-garde experiment by network-news standards.
The study of usability -- cutting down mistakes, especially seemingly stupid ones, through better design -- has spread in the past two decades, from airplane cockpits to nuclear power plants to Web sites.
"The flight crew, by virtue of the controls and the circuit-breaker panels in the cockpit, have the ability to remove power from them," said Dennis Schmitz, a veteran engineer and executive in the aviation communications industry.
The main battery provides backup power for the cockpit displays.
The other lithium-ion battery, located in the front of the plane, provides power to the cockpit.
