Sentence examples for off the cockpit from inspiring English sources

The main danger is to a pilot's vision, either by a laser being shone directly into the eyes, or by reflecting off the cockpit windshield and filling cabins with light, making it impossible for pilots to see.

In the long term, some envision a system in which air-traffic controllers could switch off the cockpit controls of a hijacked plane and then fly the craft to safety from the ground.

A paddling skirt is recommended as well, especially on rougher seas or in colder weather, to close off the cockpit from the elements and to keep your legs and lower body dry.

Others questioned the wisdom of sealing off the cockpit at all.

As we got underway, Percy Heath was scraping ice off the cockpit and the deck, pushing it toward the scuppers.

As H stepped off from the cockpit his entire leg fell off! Tim, our bipedal cameraman, had to ask if he was allowed to laugh! 17 November 2008, 14.52 Only 140 miles to Barbados.

During a subsequent investigation, an American captain reported that an F.A.A. investigator saw him nod off in the cockpit and that the investigator himself nodded off at one point, Captain Rubin said.

In January, two British Airways Concordes made emergency landings within a 24-hour period, one after an engine switched off, the other after a fire alarm went off in the cockpit.

Brown smashes his face off the front of the cockpit.

Lovell might have been joking about the refrigerator, but according to the book Apollo 13, co-written by the astronaut himself, the crew actually got quite a kick out of the frozen hot dogs, bouncing them off the walls of the cockpit.

Sure, it is a higher quality of plastic than what is found on many U.S. cars and parts of the cockpit are attractively set off with brushed faux-nickel trim (you'd be hard-pressed to realize it's not metal) and the center pod is surrounded by acres of plastic wood something that in many luxury cars actually comes from trees.