nosefirst
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nosefirst (comparative more nosefirst, superlative most nosefirst)
- Alternative form of nose-first
- 1986, Aviation Cases - Volume 20:
- At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.
- 2003, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 56, page 110:
- However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure.
- 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 217:
- Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.
Adverb[edit]
nosefirst (comparative more nosefirst, superlative most nosefirst)
- Alternative form of nose-first
- 1977, William E. Burrows, Vigilante!, page 28:
- The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.
- 1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, →ISBN, page 285:
- The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.
- 2014, Joseph Monninger, Stay Alive #1: Crash, →ISBN:
- It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.