Cargo Cockpit Drag 
Pilot's Life Blog
MARCH 15, 2024
Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Its design plays an integral part in keeping the flight crew, cargo, and passengers safe because it can withstand changes in atmospheric pressure.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. Adverse yaw is created due to the drag differential between the two sides of the aircraft.
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Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
While the Martin Model 123 had open cockpits for a pilot, nose gunner/bombardier, and rear gunner, it was envisioned that these could be enclosed later in development. Martin Company of Baltimore, Maryland, which had been one of the leading developers of American bombers, began work on a radically new design.
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 22, 2024
From Saigon, my crew and I routinely hauled critical cargo all over South Vietnam. Photo via USAF Archives During preflight, I noticed the ground crew spreading hay and straw on the cargo bay’s floor. We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway.
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 2, 2024
I move to the cockpit in search of a warmer spot and share some of the pilots’ candy. I’ll walk home if I have to, after that,” I hear someone say from the cockpit. He is beaming as he exits the cockpit. On one occasion over France there was also me, wearing a harness and hooked in next to the cockpit. Air Force C-130.
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 26, 2024
Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. The recovery team arrived at the crash site with hand and power saws to cut the Lightning into manageable sections to push into cargo pallets and be pulled with a cable and pulleys onto a landing craft-style barge. Kidder saw five figures running towards him and the plane.
Vintage Aviation News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Unlike the Concorde, though, the aircraft also had two small retractable canards that would deploy from the just behind the cockpit to allow for increased lift at low speeds, such as during takeoffs and landings.
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