What is "nosewheel"

Usage examples of "nosewheel".

The nosewheel touched, dug in, and Gant saw the surface snow ahead rushing towards him, beneath him.

He sensed the huge weight of the aircraft as he watched the nosewheel inching forward along the portable runway, dragging the long, streaming fuselage behind it.

Once winching had recommenced, he had obsessively watched the nosewheel, measured its progress - waited for it to reach and surmount the crown of the slope.

In my dream he was still propped up against the nosewheel of his little plane and bugs were crawling in and out of the bullet hole in his forehead and his dead, gaping mouth.

LeBecq in the graveyard, his brother propped against the nosewheel of an airplane in the Egyptian desert forty years later, the two deaths somehow connected.

He pulled the nosewheel steering tiller toward him, pivoting the nosewheel sharply to the left, and began turning the huge jet as Garth yelped.

She saw his nosewheel lift off the ground, and she turned slightly to the right, nearly hitting the wing.

Lear onto the runway, straightened the nosewheel, and lined up with centerline.

The Piaggio leant its nosewheel on to the ground, slowed and taxied clear in one flowing movement.

As the engines climbed to a scream the nosewheel pressed down into the grass.

The nosewheel lifted, hesitated, she ran on her main wheels for a moment and lifted heavily into the air, her nose straining for the sky.

At 80 1 tried a little back pressure: the nosewheel lifted sluggishly.

I casually kicked the chock away from the nosewheel, then ducked under the wing tip down to the door on the left side.

Boeing into a tight left tam, straightened out the nosewheel, scanned the gauges.

Then still more high-speed taxiing, raising, lowering nosewheel to learn elevators.