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Pilot’s compartment
Answer for the clue "Pilot’s compartment ", 7 letters:
cockpit
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "a pit for fighting cocks," from cock (n.1) + pit (n.1). Used in nautical sense (1706) for midshipmen's compartment below decks; transferred to airplanes (1914) and to cars (1930s).
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Cockpit is a 2012 Swedish film directed by Mårten Klingberg .
Usage examples of cockpit.
Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as several Airbus models that have almost identical cockpits.
Still angry at what he was doing, bewildered by his motivation, Goodman yanked the chocks and entered the airplane, stomping up the narrow aisleway to the cockpit.
She leaned forward, caught at a backstay, and snatched her legs from the water in a final spasm of terror before swivelling round and rolling over on to the cockpit grating deck.
He was well-known, at least by sight, to all night-living Baltimoreans, and to those who frequented race-track, gambling-house, and the furtive cockpits that now and then materialise for a few brief hours in the forty miles of country that lie between Baltimore and Washington.
He banged the rat against the side of the cockpit, but it clung on, and while it clung on, another rat jumped into the helicopter, and another.
Ackbar, Leia, and Terpfen sprang out of their cockpits as other Calamarian fighters joined them.
It was hardly more than a surfboard dressed up with a mast, rudder, centerboard, and a cramped little cockpit into which you could stick your feet as you sat on the open deck a few inches above the water.
Doctor squeezed the throttle, and Charlton reeled against the wall at the back of the cockpit as the shuttle rotated.
Two cargo loaders were at the rear, and a technician stood by the cockpit with a checkoff sheet.
Down in the cockpit were Lieutenant Commander Feyley, the OOD, and an enlisted phone talker there to relay communications in parallel with the speaker circuits in case of a failure of the bridge box.
He ducked down and reached for a clamshell on the port side of the cockpit--the clamshells were hinged panels that covered the top of the cockpit when rigged for dive, smoothing it out with the contour of the top of the sail.
Observing the decontamination chamber from the cockpit viewer, Chase was oddly reminded of a mother and child.
Do every part of the ship, except the cockpit, decontamination, and the laboratory.
Losing a fighter around you and going extravehicular did terrible things to the comforting illusions that kept fighter pilots rushing into those cockpits.
For about a femtosecond, he longed to see everything the two humans in the cockpit were seeing.