Aircraft design feature in which the cockpit shares its contour with the nose
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The stepless cockpit has seen a resurgence in newer aircraft, such as the Boeing 787.
In aircraft design, a stepless cockpit means that the nose of the aircraft has no separate "windscreen" panels directly in front of the pilot's or co-pilot's seating positions, and generally has no "breaks" in the nose contour – curved or otherwise – from their absence. In the conventional design, the pilot's cabin is a different part of the aircraft than the nose. The stepless design is believed to help make the plane more aerodynamic thus aiding speed and fuel efficiency. The stepless design did, however, present serious challenges to the inclusion of a nose-mount turreted gun position, in eras where manned or remotely-aimed gun turrets were still important for a bomber's defensive needs.
In aircraft design, a steplesscockpit means that the nose of the aircraft has no separate "windscreen" panels directly in front of the pilot's or co-pilot's...
I, modified with an extended forward fuselage beyond its original steplesscockpit, smooth-fronted nose enclosure, made its first flight from Filton....
Shipbuilding Institute). E-2s were fitted with a new streamlined "steplesscockpit" following its conceptual debut in January 1938 for the He 111P, as...
hemispherical "fishbowl" nose onto the He 177A-0, giving it the generic "steplesscockpit", without the separate windshield for the pilot and co-pilot, that...
round in cross-section and had a cabin in a glazed nose, comprising a "steplesscockpit" with no separate windscreen section for the pilots, which was common...
machine gun that replaced the 'stepped' cockpit with a roomier and more aerodynamic glazed steplesscockpit over the entire front of the aircraft. This...
88B, again similar to the original designs but using an "egg shaped" steplesscockpit forward fuselage design that comprised a greenhouse-like, well-framed...
"stepless" cockpit, a common feature of many late-war German bomber airframes and new designs. Immediately aft of the heavily glazed nose, the cockpit...
cargo bay of the Ar 232, which was directly behind the aircraft's "steplesscockpit", was 6.6 m (21 ft 7¾ in) long, 2.3 m (7 ft 6½ in) wide and 2.0 m (6 ft...
in various places. The nose was redesigned with a more streamlined "steplesscockpit", having no separate windscreen panels for the pilot and co-pilot....
Similar high-altitude modifications to the Ju 188, with its complex steplesscockpit glazing comprising some three dozen framed window panels in all, were...
a visually reframed slight variation of its multiple glazed-panel "steplesscockpit", fully glazed nose design that accommodated a pressurized cabin provision...
aircraft were E variants, with traditional stepped-cockpit, in contrast to the widely recognised Steplesscockpit of the later He 111P and -H models. The Gruppe...
the aircraft was redesigned as a trainer aircraft with a full "stepless" glass cockpit, as had been initiated with the He 111P in early 1938, with no...
to fill both the bomber and reconnaissance roles. It was to have a steplesscockpit housing three of the four crew, and was to be fitted with Kuto-Nase...
unconventional in its day with its empennage on twin, slim booms, a cockpit under stepless, rounded, multi-panel glazing and a tricycle undercarriage. The...
all-new fully glazed "stepless" crew compartment nose, developed into Junkers Ju 188. Ju 88 B-0 10 pre-production aircraft with "stepless" fully glazed nose...
also flat, with two steps. Stability on the water was provided by long, stepless floats on each side, strut-mounted from the wings a little outside the...
engine 525 Dabo-Reibkugel transmission for Volkswagen and the 356 525 Stepless Dabo-Reibkugel transmission for Industrial engines 527 1951–1952 1.5-liter...
conditioning and the vehicle's body were completely upgraded, and the second cockpit was removed. The type got its EBO certification in 2016, and since then...
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