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nose wheel

British

noun

a wheel fitted to the forward end of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft

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Pictures appear to show the aircraft with a collapsed nose wheel sitting on the runway.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

To cap it all off, on Jan. 20, the nose wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 plane came off and actually rolled away while the plane taxied on the runway.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2024

Air traffic controllers told the crew they couldn’t see the nose wheel.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Skotarczak said if he hadn’t seen the plane’s shadow without the nose wheel down and been told to brace for an emergency landing, he would have thought nothing was wrong.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

Close by the nose wheel he slipped and steadied himself by the shaft which reaches down to the wheel’s hub.

From Space Platform by Murray Leinster

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