Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
suninmyeyes,
Yes, the flight deck is upstairs for the reasons you say. But it was made so tight around the pilots' heads in order to minimise the local Mach No. It could have been larger but for this. It is all to do with controlling the shock wave and minimising flow separation and thus the resulting drag.
At least they didn't try the C-74 answer to a cockpit high in the fuselage.