“Cockpit” was used as a nautical term to describe the area where a man o’ war was steered. It was a recessed area of the deck that resembled a cockfighting pit. When aircraft with fuselage were developed, the pilot sat in a hole in the top of the fuselage. The nautical term was borrowed from nautical jargon to describe this hole in the fuselage with the engine and flight controls in it.
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James Rogers Hunter:
May 19th, 2018 at 8:55 pm
“Cockpit” was used as a nautical term to describe the area where a man o’ war was steered. It was a recessed area of the deck that resembled a cockfighting pit. When aircraft with fuselage were developed, the pilot sat in a hole in the top of the fuselage. The nautical term was borrowed from nautical jargon to describe this hole in the fuselage with the engine and flight controls in it.