(n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
(n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.
(n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pilot, who sustained serious injuries, was thrown clear of the cockpit in his seat after the impact, but investigators are still trying to ascertain if he had tried to eject.
(2) As with the 787, the plane may be dramatically different but the cockpit is designed for continuity for pilots, albeit with a host of technological improvements.
(3) The noise of several alarms – including one that indicated the plane was stalling – can be heard going off in recordings from the black box in the cockpit, the investigator said.
(4) The key measure, sealing cockpits to deny access to passengers, is universal.
(5) It showed the Buk missile exploding on the left-hand side of the cockpit.
(6) In one high-profile gaffe, the expertise of one member of Macierewicz’s commission was revealed to have been based upon experience of constructing model aircraft, sitting in a fighter jet’s cockpit during an air show, and observing plane wings while looking out of a passenger window.
(7) During a period of one year, 6,863 employees underwent routine medical check-ups: 3,223 ground staff, 3,129 cabin staff, and 511 cockpit crew.
(8) [The cockpit voice recorder] seems to be under a wing, which is quite heavy,” said Supriyadi, operations coordinator for the search and rescue agency.
(9) As Frank De Winne, head of the European astronaut corps puts it: “This isn’t education, this is a mindset.” Peake, 43, grew up in Chichester and fell in love with flying when he sat for the first time in the cockpit of a plane in the cadet force at school.
(10) This allows the aircrew members to experience the effect of viewing instruments in the cockpit of a C-130 aircraft.
(11) The mean WBGT in the cockpit over the 1-h standby period was positively correlated with the ambient WBGT at time 0 (r = 0.783, p less than 0.001).
(12) The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) says the report, due on Tuesday, will include details gathered from the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder, satellite and other images, and radar information.
(13) The so-called black boxes - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder - record what happens on board planes in flight.
(14) The results show that both vertical and lateral gradients exist in F4E aircraft and that single-point measurements of Tdb close to the right shoulder show a bias of up to 4 degrees C in relation to mean cockpit dry bulb temperature derived from measurements at five sites.
(15) Development of a prone-position cockpit with a counterweighted, forward-looking head support plus optical-electronically aided all-directional visibility is the most physiologic, safest, and surest way to achieve this goal.
(16) In order to examine the influence of enhanced information transfer on aircrew behavior, intracrew communications and approach-to-land decisions were evaluated with conventional ATC communications and with automated cockpit alerting and display of weather information.
(17) @OSCE monitors visited cockpit debris today, say not scorched like other parts of wreckage, add that 37 bodies removed from there, inc crew July 20, 2014 7.36pm BST Kiev Post's Christopher Miller tweets: Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) .
(18) The AAIB team will examine the information from the cockpit voice recorder which will give them two hours of pilots' conversations as well as studying the contents of the flight data recorder (FDR).
(19) The trajectories of head movements in the helmet and velocities of impact contact with the seat and anterior of the cockpit were calculated as applied to every stage of the catapulting process and mass-inertia parameters of helmets taken into account.
(20) Results suggested that flight stresses perceived by crewmembers in the same cockpit were influenced by their flying experience and flight position which could be clearly assessed by determining relative excretions of epinephrine and norepinephrine.
Sickbay
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There were 4,529 attendances at the Sickbay with apparent infective episodes.
(2) The amount of time missed from school in two small town school populations was estimated by measuring absence from school and attendance at sickbay, and stated causes were analysed.