Cockpit
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@sidache (192)
India
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
It's another naval term...I just happened to be reading a site about nautical terms the other day and this was in it.
It's because the cockpit was where the sailing ships used to be steered from so it just became the name for the pilots area on an aircraft.
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
@MALUSE this seems a reasonable explanation.
Why should the pilot's cabin of an plane be called, of all things, the 'Cockpit'?
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
@MALUSE I put a link to the other half...I think it looks the right answer.
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@sidache (192)
• India
10 Apr 17
@Yadah04 The earliest airplanes copied the designs of the 1903 Wright Flyer, on which the pilot lay on the wing, in the open and subject to the wind.
As airplanes developed over the next five years years, constructors like France's Louis Blériot built an enclosed a space to protect the pilot from the wind and cold.
This space had a slight resemblance to a cockpit, the small round enclosure in which two fighting cocks were thrown.
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