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nose wheel

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The disruption included a plane suffering an emergency incident at Belfast City Airport on Sunday evening, when its nose wheel appeared to break during landing in stormy conditions.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 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

A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from Atlanta’s main airport on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 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

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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