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A cockpit or flight deck [1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology. 1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column.
The McConnell Story is a 1955 dramatization of the life and career of United States Air Force (USAF) pilot Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954) directed by Gordon Douglas. ...
48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak ...
March 8: Raymonde de Laroche of France becomes the world's first woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] August 29: Marthe Niel of France becomes the world's second woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] September 3: Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium is the first woman in the world to fly with a passenger.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Flight controller. International Space Station control rooms in Russia and in the United States. Flight controllers are personnel who aid space flight by working in such Mission Control Centers as NASA 's Mission Control Center or ESA 's European Space Operations Centre. Flight controllers work at computer consoles and use telemetry to monitor ...
Flight attendant or Cabin Crew, is the crew member responsible for the safety of passengers. Historically during the early era of commercial aviation, the position was staffed by young 'cabin boys' who assisted passengers. [15] Cabin boys were replaced by female nurses, originally called 'stewardesses'. The medical background requirement for ...
Pilot (. Suits. ) Harvey Specter ( Gabriel Macht) and Mike Ross ( Patrick J. Adams) meet for the first time. " Pilot " is the pilot episode of the American legal comedy-drama Suits, which premiered on USA Network in the United States on June 23, 2011. The episode was written by series creator Aaron Korsh and was directed by Kevin Bray.