The car was swelling in his forward view, moving but throttled back, waiting for him.
The dark patch occupied a third of the forward view.
Finally he called up the forward view, closed the wall panel and turned toward her.
"Please switch to your forward view," the science officer said.
The sun filled the forward view completely, and a few minutes later it swallowed them up.
He had become accustomed to seeing the transmission recordings, and added them above the main forward view.
As he did so he caught sight of the forward view.
Already clouds of steam were rising, obscuring the forward view.
This put the pilot in front of and slightly above the engine, so that he also had an excellent forward view.