What is the nose of a plane called?
What is the nose of a plane called? First, he informed me of the aircraft nose's official name – the radome (radar + dome = radome).
What plane has a downward nose?
Next came the two types on nose design that were actually built for Concorde, both of which featured a 'droop-nose' which could be lowered to two positions – 5 degrees for take-off and a 17.5 degree (changed to 12.5 degree on the production aircraft) for approach and landing.