Cockpit

By SID
@sidache (192)
India
April 8, 2017 3:21pm CST
Why its named cockpit? I mean to say Why the poilot's cabin is named cockpit of a flight? Any reason? Didn't get explanation in Google.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
8 Apr 17
Good question. I have no idea. Please tell us.
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
I know
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
It's another naval term...I just happened to be reading a site about nautical terms the other day and this was in it. It's because the cockpit was where the sailing ships used to be steered from so it just became the name for the pilots area on an aircraft.
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M.-L.
@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
8 Apr 17
This is only one-half of the explanation. Why was the steering thingy on a ship called cockpit?
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
@MALUSE I don't know that half
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Mike
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
8 Apr 17
@MALUSE this seems a reasonable explanation.
World Wide Words: Cockpit
www.worldwidewords.org
Why should the pilot's cabin of an plane be called, of all things, the 'Cockpit'?
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Yadah
@Yadah04 (3363)
• Philippines
10 Apr 17
haha, never though of it though. and it does sounds funny, if not utterly silly. Lol.
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Yadah
@Yadah04 (3363)
• Philippines
10 Apr 17
@sidache have you found any sensible reason why the name?
SID
@sidache (192)
• India
10 Apr 17
Really funny
SID
@sidache (192)
• India
10 Apr 17
@Yadah04 The earliest airplanes copied the designs of the 1903 Wright Flyer, on which the pilot lay on the wing, in the open and subject to the wind. As airplanes developed over the next five years years, constructors like France's Louis Blériot built an enclosed a space to protect the pilot from the wind and cold. This space had a slight resemblance to a cockpit, the small round enclosure in which two fighting cocks were thrown.
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