Sentence examples for cockpits from inspiring English sources

When Mary Cummings, a former US Navy pilot, stopped flying F-18 fighter jets in 1997, there were no video links between cockpits and command centres, and even radio contact was patchy at times.

Whether it is safer to return to unlocked cockpits and increase the risk of hijackings is far from clear.

In their place have come a mere handful of liquid-crystal displays that can be made to show all manner of digital flight data.While this may appear to simplify matters, so-called "glass cockpits" can literally overwhelm pilots by concentrating so much information in a single display, instead of spreading it around dozens of familiar locations within the cockpit.

New cockpits make it easier for a driver to operate a car more safely without using his feet.

Partly to assuage such worries, Bombardier has agreed with China's Comac that the two will seek to make their planes' cockpits and other systems similar, to encourage airlines to order both together.Delays, breakdowns and even accidents are not unknown when the established makers launch new planes.

The IEEE article concluded that the potential for interference with satellite-navigation (Sat-Nav) systems used in cockpits to assist with take-offs and landings in particular was a concern.

Today, improvements to, among many other things, track design, protective clothing, crumple zones and easily-escapable "survival cells" in the cockpits of cars, through which no fuel or water lines may pass, has made the sport much safer.

Automation is not a panacea; it only relocates the opportunity for human failure from air-traffic control rooms or cockpits to whatever houses the software.

Flushed with virtue, the country that used to be an international pariah has become a mediator of conflicts in such cockpits as Burundi and Congo.

Over the past couple of decades, cockpits have evolved beyond recognition.

The aircraft were old two-seater biplanes, PO-2s, originally training planes, made of canvas and plywood with open cockpits.