You might be surprised to see large passenger airliners with cockpit windows that open. Here's why some cockpit windows open, ...

The notion of a cockpit-less plane sounds bizarre now, but at the time, the periscope concept was seen as a viable idea.

Instead of clusters of dials or banks of screens, the cockpit ... view of the world and could even project virtual displays onto whatever surface is desired. Pilots can also communicate with the ...

That aircraft now hangs in the Boeing Milestones of Flight hall in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. This 360-degree VR view is part of a series of aircraft cockpits ...