Yet for all its quirks and no-frills disregard for pilot-friendly ergonomics, the close-fitting cockpit is reassuring, and fit for the Spitfire’s real purpose ... Pilots are natural compensators; give ...

Another central “unique selling point” of the Spitfire was the design of its cockpit. This was developed to maximize functionality while saving space and provided some of the best visibility ...

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 ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — The cockpit door ripped off of a small two-seater plane over Loudoun County on Saturday morning. Pilot Daniel O'Brien was flying the aircraft near the Round Hill area when ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (DC News Now) — Officials in Virginia were searching for a cockpit door that fell off a small aircraft flying in Loudoun County on Saturday morning. The Virginia State Police (VSP) ...

A Virginia pilot pulled off a safe landing after the cockpit door of his two-seater plane tore off mid-flight Saturday morning, April 5, state police said. The fixed-wing single-engine aircraft was ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — A search is underway for a single-engine plane's cockpit door that troopers said "ripped off" during a flight over Loudoun County, Virginia, Saturday morning. Officials ...

State police and the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office are searching for the cockpit door of a small aircraft after the pilot made an emergency landing Saturday morning at Leesburg Executive Airport.

A World War two Spitfire ace has been reunited with the airframe for the first time in 80 years at the Australian International Airshow. 100-year-old Warrant Officer (retd) John McDonald sat in the ...

Accident investigators are scrutinizing an unsecured cockpit door as a causal factor in the fatal crash of an Van’s RV-10 crash into a factory near Fullerton Municipal Airport (KFUL) in California.