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unusual facts about The Cockpit


The Cockpit

Cockpit Theatre, a 17th-century theatre in London (also known as the Phoenix)


A Maidenhead Well Lost

A Pleasant Comedy, called A Maidenhead Well Lost is a dark comedy set in Italy; it was written and published by Thomas Heywood in 1634 and performed at The Cockpit by Queen Henrietta's Men in that same year.


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Ace Mariner Europa

The Europa was the first motorboat to incorporate an 'arch' over the cockpit to hold the canopy, lights etc.

Armor Holdings

In 2003, it acquired Simula, Inc. a developer and producer of military seating systems, the Cockpit Air Bag System (CABS) for US Army helicopters, the Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) armor system, and parachutes.

Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

On October 11, 2013 a Airbus A-320 (registration N492TA) the aircraft 8:20 AM local time,made an emergency landing, of the airline TACA presence to declare emergency smoke in the cockpit.

Donald J. Gott

Flares in the cockpit were ignited and a fire raged therein, which was further increased by free-flowing fluid from damaged hydraulic lines.

Edward S. Michael

Hydraulic fluid filmed over the windshield making visibility impossible, and smoke filled the cockpit.

Eileen Vollick

Since Vollick weighed a mere 89 pounds and was only 5 feet 1 inch tall, she used pillows to prop herself up to see out of the cockpit of the Curtiss JN-4.

EKO Cobra

On 17 October 1996, four Cobra officers were on board an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 escorting deported prisoners to Lagos when a Nigerian man threatened the cockpit crew with a knife and demanded a diversion to Germany or South Africa.

Electronic flight bag

The system called FMD (Flight Management Desktop) permits Aero Lloyd to remove all the documentation and RTOW in paper from the cockpit with the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (German Civil Aviation Authority) agreement.

François Duval

A series of costly shunts, including on his Citroën debut from second place in Monte Carlo, led to an enforced two-rally leave from the cockpit for the Turkey and Acropolis rallies.

Grob G 120TP

The cockpit is equipped with movable seats, or optional the new Martin Baker Mk.17 lightweight ejection seats can be chosen.

IAR 111

A Mi-17 helicopter dropped the cockpit from 700m to test the parachute recovery system.

Junkers Ju 188

One of these was fitted with the slightly updated 801L engines and a small power-operated turret on the extreme top of the cockpit mounting a 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 machine gun.

Michael Echanis

Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare At Goats, cites associates of Echanis who contend the explosion in the aircraft was from an attempt to bomb a Sandanista camp with hand grenades by throwing them from an opened window in the plane and that the recovered aircraft showed evidence of a hand grenade going off inside the cockpit.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer

However Setsuna F. Seiei arrives in a customized Colony Flag and destroys them, with Lockon in the cockpit stopping the assassin from killing Marina and left with Setsuna.

National Museum of Commercial Aviation

Most noteworthy in the collection include the world's only known Martin 404 Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT) in Southern Airways livery, TUG Technologies first TUG Tractor, and the cockpit of an ex Eastern Air Lines Martin 404, later owned by Ray Charles.

North American X-15

On 8 June 2004, a monument was erected at the cockpit's locale, near Randsburg, California.

Obstacle Collision Avoidance System

Secondary Warning - Audio Broadcast: If the initial warning does not result in the pilot altering the flight path, a programmable VHF radio broadcasts an additional obstruction warning directly to the cockpit.

Orbitron

A small reel-to-reel tape recorder hidden in the cockpit and which was intended to play a musical recording of the car's features was discovered along with the original tape during the restoration process and is in working order; the recording was reportedly done by Tex Ritter.

Piarco International Airport

2011 - (August 12) A North American Airlines plane was on approach near the Piarco International Airport just after 2pm when the pilots reported smoke coming from the cockpit.

Rotary Rocket

Visibility in the cockpit was so restricted that the pilots nicknamed it the Batcave.

Super 35

It also received much early publicity for making the cockpit shots in Top Gun possible, since it was otherwise impossible to fit 35 mm cameras with large anamorphic lenses into the small free space in the cockpit.

Timothy B. Dyk

One case saw Dyk arguing for the release to the public of the cockpit recordings of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

White Light Parade

They have also played Sold Out shows including The Cockpit in Leeds and were also on the bill for Bingley Music Live alongside members from The Jam and The Bluetones, playing to thousands of people.

William E. Metzger, Jr.

Flares in the cockpit were ignited and a fire roared therein which was further increased by free-flowing fluid from damaged hydraulic lines.