Additionally, pilots can open the side cockpit windows mid-flight to get a clear view if the front-facing windows are damaged or obscured. Bird strikes can damage plane engines, but large birds ...

Unmanned cockpit incident forces Lufthansa plane to land in Madrid after a co-pilot suddenly became incapacitated mid-flight over the Iberian Peninsula. The serious aviation event occurred on ...

Color photos shot in 1980 from the cockpit of a Cessna 150 reveal the magnitude of Mount St. Helens' ash and destruction amid ...

In the dark stillness of night, a quiet, tree-lined street in a San Diego neighborhood was plunged into tragedy when a plane ...

The notion of a cockpit-less plane sounds bizarre now ... also notably featured a ventral fin that had to be hinged to the side for take-off and landing. More curious still, the XF-103 featured ...

A Lufthansa plane carrying nearly 200 passengers went a frightening 10 minutes without a pilot after the first officer lost consciousness in the cockpit while the captain was off using the ...

If you’ve wondered what landing an aircraft on water must feel like, you no longer need to. A video on social media shows two pilots’ cockpit view of one touchdown. As the plane makes contact with the ...

An aircraft cover, at least a windscreen protector be it internal or external to the cockpit, is a must ... being careful not to drop it airplane-side down where it could pick up grit and scratch ...

In a mid-air scare, a Spain-bound Lufthansa plane carrying nearly 200 passengers went 10 minutes without a pilot after the first officer lost consciousness in the cockpit while the captain was off ...

Crew Chief 7, also known as Silent Bob (they all get nicknames) had laid out photos of the cockpit on a conference room table ... Next on the menu was a “minimum radius” turn: he rolled the plane on ...