The Spanish Cockpit is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War written by Franz Borkenau and published in late 1937. It was based on his two wartime...
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(1976). The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868–1936. Free Life Press. ISBN 187317604X. Borkenau, Franz (1937). The Spanish Cockpit: an Eye-Witness...
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The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists....
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Franz Borkenau (category Austrian people of the Spanish Civil War)
impressed with Borkenau's Spanish Cockpit. Orwell sought Borkenau and became a friend. Noam Chomsky would later describe The Spanish Cockpit as "an illuminating...
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Germanwings Flight 9525 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, Lubitz locked the cockpit door and initiated a controlled descent that continued until the aircraft hit...
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Animal Farm (redirect from The Freedom of the Press (Animal Farm))
writing in his review of Franz Borkenau's The Spanish Cockpit in Time and Tide, 31 July 1937, and "Spilling the Spanish Beans", New English Weekly, 29 July...
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Homage to Catalonia (category Spanish Civil War books)
his own book The Spanish Cockpit formed a complete picture of the Spanish Revolution of 1936. A mixed review for The Listener described the book as a "muddle-headed...
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Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within...
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Cockfight (redirect from Cockpit (gambling))
males of the same species.[clarification needed][citation needed] Wagers are often made on the outcome of the match, held in a ring called a cockpit. Cockfighting...
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writing in his review of Franz Borkenau's The Spanish Cockpit in Time and Tide, 31 July 1937, and "Spilling the Spanish Beans", New English Weekly, 29 July...
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Revolutionary Catalonia (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Franz (1974). The Spanish Cockpit. University of Michigan Press. p. 178. Bolloten 1991, p. 388-50 Bolloten 1991, p. 53 Stephen D. Mumford. The Life and Death...
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The Pilatus PC-21 is a turboprop-powered advanced trainer with a stepped tandem cockpit. It is manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. In November...
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Impact of culture on aviation safety (redirect from Culture in the Cockpit)
asking the pilots in his own cockpit, "Is he not clear, that Pan American?" The KLM captain emphatically replied "Oh, yes" and continued with the takeoff...
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Tenerife airport disaster (redirect from The Tenerife Disaster)
standardized phraseology in radio communications. Cockpit procedures were also reviewed, contributing to the establishment of crew resource management as a...
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Gran Turismo official steering wheel (redirect from Sparco Racing Cockpit)
USB connection. The GT Force is the central part of a driving simulation cockpit installation. Official kits are co-designed and released in Japan by Logicool...
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Aeroperú Flight 603 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
altitude on cockpit displays because a maintenance worker had failed to remove tape covering the pitot-static system ports on the aircraft exterior. The aircraft...
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Eurofighter Typhoon (redirect from The Eurofighter Typhoon)
in the port side of the fuselage, below the cockpit. User needs were given a high priority in the cockpit's design; both layout and functionality was...
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Valentine Ackland (category CS1 European Spanish-language sources (es-es))
Spring 1937 “Two Pictures of the Spanish War” (book review of The War in Spain by Ramon Sender, and The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau) – Left Review...
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2024 Formula One World Championship (redirect from 2024 Spanish Grand Prix)
in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In response to extreme weather conditions resulting in cockpit overheating during the 2023 Qatar Grand...
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List of Mayday episodes (redirect from Kid in the Cockpit)
incident from happening again. The programs use re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, cockpit voice recordings, and official...
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LATAM Airlines Flight 800 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
that the instruments in the cockpit went blank when the plane fell, then came back online a few seconds later. It has also been reported that the inadvertent...
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George Orwell bibliography (redirect from The bibliography of George Orwell)
under the headline "Spanish Tragedy" in Time and Tide, 16 July 1938. Searchlight on Spain was also review separately by Orwell in The New English Weekly...
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journalist who went on to write The Spanish Cockpit Georges Botto – Havas Agency Rene Brut Henry Buckley – Daily Telegraph and the Observer M. J. Buckley – Cork...
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McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
cockpit, a redesigned fuselage and other structural and aerodynamic refinements. The aircraft is powered by an upgraded version of the Pegasus. The AV-8B...
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Kingsley Martin (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Franz Borkenau's book The Spanish Cockpit. Martin and the literary editor Raymond Mortimer turned down the review, however, on the grounds that "it is very...
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Belgium (redirect from Cockpit of Europe)
by the Spanish (Spanish Netherlands) and the Austrian House of Habsburgs (Austrian Netherlands) and comprised most of modern Belgium. This was the theatre...
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Swissair Flight 111 (redirect from Flight Swissair 11, the victim plane of the Swissair 111 accident, that had been caused by fire.)
Yarmouth, the flight crew detected an odour in the cockpit and determined it to be smoke from the air conditioning system. Four minutes later, the odour returned...
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Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (redirect from Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor cockpit)
Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2019. Lara Seligman; Aaron Smith (23 May 2017). "Inside The Cockpit: Flying The F-22 Against...
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The Cockpit is a circa 1860 pub on St Andrew's Hill, in the City of London, where it meets Ireland Yard. Formerly named The Cock Pit, having hosted cockfights...
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Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
pilot in the cockpit who was flying the plane during the takeoff caused the crew to be distracted, leading to a loss of situational awareness. The crew failed...
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