The gals can sun themselves in the roomy aft cockpit.

At approximately 8: 00 pm a warning light flashed in the cockpit, indicating that the aft airstair apparatus had been activated.

During a NATO exercise in the summer of 1956, Collins was forced to eject from an F-86 after a fire started aft of the cockpit.

Creek boats usually have increased " rocker ," or rise, fore and aft of the cockpit for manouverability.

The dragon artwork ran from the nose just forward of the cockpit, down the entire length of the fuselage's sides, with the dragon's body depicted directly below and just aft of the cockpit, with the dragon holding a nude woman in its forefeet.

* 1 x MG 15 machine gun on a manually aimed mounting aft of the cockpit

The cockpit windshield of the first 247s was angled " forward " instead of the conventional aft sweep.

Made in GRP with no woodwork it has a removable aft storage tank, a self draining cockpit, and a spinnaker chute.

: Placing the cockpit forward of the wing to balance the weight of the engine ( s ) aft improves visibility for the crew.

machine guns, and the fuselage package guns just below and aft of the cockpit have twin. 50-cal.

The aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are often located in the empennage, because the aft of the aircraft provides better protection for these in most aircraft crashes.

Thomas came back to the cockpit, visibly pale, and reported that a large section of fuselage aft of the Number 1 exit door was open.

It is often an area near or aft of the cockpit.

Ideally, the preventer should run from the aft end of the boom to a turning block at or very close to the bow and then back to a cleat convenient to the cockpit.

Early hulls were equipped with a tiller only, and with the main sheet traveller located at the aft end of the cockpit.

By 1942, the German He 177A Greif heavy bomber would feature a Fernbedienbare Drehlafette FDL 131Z remotely operated forward dorsal turret, armed with twin 13mm MG 131 machine guns on the top of the fuselage, which was operated from a rotating " astrodome " just behind the cockpit glazing — a second, manned dorsal turret, further aft on the fuselage was also used on most examples.

It is attached either to the end of the pole or to a bridle on the bottom of the pole, and runs through a padeye on the foredeck rather than directly aft to the cockpit.

The Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', a Soviet-era bomber, has large bulged landing gear nacelles behind the two inner engines, increasing the aircraft's overall cross section aft of the wing root.

By comparison, a cutter has a mainsail and at least two foresails, and its mast may be set further aft than on a sloop.

A two-masted schooner has the mainsail on the aft mast, and its other mast is the foremast.

Such a unit generally has a van front end, and driver controls in a cab body which extends only to a point aft of the driver and passenger seats, where the rest of the van body is cutoff ( leading to the terminology " cutaway ").

The shape of the keel has a much smaller cross section in the fore and aft axis and a much larger cross section on the athwart axis ( across the beam of the boat ).

Both the ketch and the yawl have two masts, with the main mast foremost ; the distinction being that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post, whereas on a yawl, it is aft of the rudder post.

If a vessel has two masts of approximately the same height, the rig with the larger sail forward is called a ketch, while the rig with the larger sail aft is a schooner.

Both the yawl and the ketch have two masts, with the main mast foremost ; the distinction being that a ketch has the mizzen mast forward of the rudder post, whereas on a yawl, it is aft of the rudder post.

A variation of the multi tandem layout is also used on the B-52 Stratofortress which has four main wheel bogies ( two forward and two aft ) underneath the fuselage and a small outrigger wheel supporting each wing-tip.

The challenge of designing a tandem-gear layout is that the aircraft has to sit ( on the ground ) at the optimum flight angle for landing-when the plane is nearly in a stalled attitude just before touchdown, both fore and aft wheels must be ready to contact the runway.

Although the Topper was originally rigged with an aft mainsheet, since 2004 the option to use a centre main has been allowed.

The propellant has an 11-point star-shaped perforation in the forward motor segment and a double-truncated-cone perforation in each of the aft segments and aft closure.

The lower section often has a system of small blocks which are used by the crew to alter the length of the trapeze wire as the crew moves aft on a broad reach.

The module has three docking ports: one axially on the front end at the docking sphere, one on the earth-facing side ( nadir ) of the docking sphere and one axially on the aft end.

The yacht also has a pool, located aft on one of her upper decks, and two submarines ( one of them operated by remote control for studying the bottom of the ocean ).

Other difficult " named rapids " on the run are: Big Drop ( a large standing wave followed by a big drop and sudden " S " turn ); Raft Ripper ( a right-to-left fast cascade with a submerged pointed rock midstream at the bottom ); Pinball ( a " rock garden ") and Seidel's Suckhole — a dangerous drop with a powerful ' hydraulic ' or " hole " which has " sucked " numerous river guides right out of the aft end of their boat.

A tandem triplane has two sets of triplane wings, fore and aft.

The 1909 Roe I Triplane has also been described as a tandem triplane due to its relatively large triplane aft plane.

Because of the engine placement, a T3 has nearly equal 50 / 50 weight distribution fore and aft.

The tricycle arrangement has one wheel in the front, called the nose wheel, and two or more main wheels slightly aft of the center of gravity.

For example, the 1000-foot Stewart J. Cort has a shuttle boom inside the aft deckhouse.

The mainsheet has a maximum of a 6: 1 purchase and has a traveller that allows movement over the entire aft crossmember of the frame.

Until 1991, the forward and aft sections of the submarines were rejoined and placed in floating storage.

The standard Skylab Command Module accommodated a crew of three with storage lockers on the aft bulkhead for resupply of experiment film and other equipment, as well as the return of exposed film, data tapes and experiment samples.