• n  compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft
• n  a pit for cockfights
• n  seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car

News & Articles

• Senior citizen's wish comes true, flies in biplane
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – For 20 years a Louisville woman has dreamed of flying in an open cockpit biplane. Her dream became a reality on Saturday thanks to an organization dedicated to fulfilling life-long wishes of senior citizens. Click the video to learn about Vivian McDonald’s reaction when her wish finally came true.  
  June 16, 2013 - WHAS TV11 Louisville
• This is what happens when a plane is landing and the runway disappears
  Cockpit footage of the aborted landing of a Boeing Business Jet in pouring rain shows the split-second decisions pilots have to make.
  June 15, 2013 - CNET
• ‘Young Eagles’ soar over Ocean Shores
  Eleven-year-old Thomas McWalter proudly waved from the cockpit of Dan Murphy’s custom-built single engine airplane as it touched down at the Ocean Shores Municipal Airport. For the better part of the last half-hour, the youngster was treated to a co-pilot’s seat, a birds-eye view of Grays Harbor, the Pacific Ocean, and on up the coast to where his father, David McWalter, is a Washington State ...
  June 15, 2013 - The Daily World

Quotes

• Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York Daily News
  Part of the reason we were in the C-17 is because part of it is armored,Clinton said. "I was moved up into the cockpit. Everyone else was told to sit on their bullet proof vests. We came in in an evasive maneuver. Those of you who have...
• John McCain in ABC News
  I was on board the USS Enterprise,McCain, a former naval aviator, said in the capital city of Harrisburg. "I sat in the cockpit, on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise, off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, you know how close we came...
• Mario Theissen in SI.com
  However, the current testing rules mean that he barely gets a chance to drive for us,BMW motorsport director Mario Theissen said. "Now he has been offered the opportunity to get inside a Toro Rosso cockpit. We have sponsored and coached...