How do you convert an old cockpit instrument into a clock? Easy: just build a circuit that convinces it it’s in the air, and the rest will take care of itself. Now obviously, little about [porkfreezer ...

Few working environments impose as many irritating problems as the aircraft cockpit. It is physically cramped but visually open, with as much window space as possible, since the point of being ...

The composite photo gives a pretty good idea of how the cockpit of supersonic heavy bombers has evolved in about 50 years. With a planned cruise speed of Mach 3 and operating altitude of 70,000 feet, ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport here on Monday looked unremarkable. But inside the cockpit, in the right seat, a robot with spindly metal tubes ...