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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The captain managed to use the nose wheel tiller to keep the plane near the runway centerline until the pedals unstuck.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 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

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

"The man was found alive in the nose wheel section of the plane and was taken to hospital in a stable condition," Royal Dutch Military Police spokeswoman Joanna Helmonds told the AFP news agency.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2022

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 Leinster, Murray

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