The Spitfire, which had fought in the Battle ... "A nice early surprise was finding the cockpit door, which is what the pilot would have bolted open and slid the hood back and jumped out the ...

2024, and serves as a reminder of the importance of following safety checklists, particularly with specific aircraft requirements, like the Spitfire's cockpit door closure before the canopy latches.

2024, and serves as a reminder of the importance of following safety checklists, particularly with specific aircraft requirements, like the Spitfire's cockpit door closure before the canopy latches.

It looks just like the real Spitfire cockpit that Jones had let me sit in earlier. Yet now is the real test of my aviation aspirations, and there is surely no better place to do so than in this ...

"The cockpit door was a bit of a surprise," he said ... Josie McCusker, who remembers seeing the Spitfire fall from the sky all those years ago, stayed for the entire duration of the dig.

The Spitfire crash-landed in a field off Lower ... “The operator issued a crew notice instructing its pilots that the cockpit door must be closed prior to engine start. “On subsequent ...

The Spitfire was technology. It was art. It was Mars in a sleek, all-metal monocoque with elegant, elliptical wings. The Spitfire made everyone who sat in the aircraft’s tiny cockpit feel great, feel ...