单词 | nose-up |
释义 | nose-upadj. Chiefly Aeronautics. Performed with or having the nose directed upwards; = nose-high adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [adjective] > tail-down or nose-up cabré1913 nose-up1933 nose-high1975 1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 60 The lighter [air]ship..takes 20 seconds longer than the neutral ship to return to the horizontal, beyond which it only proceeds to 1° nose up. 1957 A. C. Clarke Deep Range iv. 48 By keeping the torp tail-heavy and nose-up he was able to scorch along on the surface like a speed-boat. 1971 Flying Apr. 35/3 All you have to do is open the throttles, accelerate to that speed, rotate to a 10- or 12-degree nose-up attitude, and blast on out of the aerodrome. 1992 Pilot July 54/3 If you just keep flaring until the stick hits the back-stop the aeroplane becomes more nose-up than the usual ground attitude so the tailwheel touches first. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1933 |
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