Fighting Cockpits – The pilot’s view of iconic aircraft

The combat-aircraft cockpit has some sort of magical attraction to all who fly and those who would like to fly. It is the throne room in which aerial warriors, both past and present, sat and engaged in that rare form of combat that is built around the third dimension. It was—and is—man and machine wielding their mechanical swords in life-and-death struggles that have found their way into every form of modern mythology, whether on the...