Cockpit
A cockpit is the open space, normally near the front of an aircraft, where a pilot controls the aircraft. A different name for the cockpit is the flight deck, flight deck can also refer to the flight deck on an aircraft carrier. Current cockpits have walls on all sides, this may not be the same for some small aircraft, and cockpits on aircraft with passengers have the cockpit separated from the passenger area of the aircraft. Motorboats also have cockpits.
Cockpit as a term for the pilot's space in an aircraft first appeared in 1914. From about 1935 cockpit also came to be used informally to refer to the driver's seat of a car, especially a high performance one, and this is official terminology in Formula One. The term is most likely related to the sailing term for the coxswain's station in a Royal Navy ship, and later the location of the ship's rudder controls.
Cockpit Media
Cockpit of an Airbus A319 during landing
Cockpit of an Antonov An-124
Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology.
Dashboard of a Robin DR400 President (UK registration G-RNDD) at Kemble Airfield, Gloucestershire, England. Built in the year 2003.
1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column.
View of a cockpit seen from outside of a British Airways Boeing 747-400
A later analogue cockpit (1970s) of a Hawker Siddeley Trident airliner
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