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The nose cone of an RAF Typhoon F2. A nose cone is the conically shaped forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft, designed to modulate oncoming airflow behaviors and minimize aerodynamic drag. Nose cones are also designed for submerged watercraft such as submarines, submersibles and torpedoes, and in high-speed land vehicles ...
General parameters used for constructing nose cone profiles. Given the problem of the aerodynamic design of the nose cone section of any vehicle or body meant to travel through a compressible fluid medium (such as a rocket or aircraft, missile, shell or bullet), an important problem is the determination of the nose cone geometrical shape for optimum performance.
A drag-reducing aerospike is a device (see nose cone design) used to reduce the forebody pressure aerodynamic drag of blunt bodies at supersonic speeds. The aerospike creates a detached shock ahead of the body. Between the shock and the forebody a zone of recirculating flow occurs which acts like a more streamlined forebody profile, reducing ...
The flush cockpit means that the long and pointed nose-cone will obstruct all forward vision. The X-59 will use an enhanced flight vision system (EVS), consisting of a forward 4K camera with a 33° by 19° angle of view, which will compensate for the lack of forward visibility. [6] [29]
The first supersonic delta to receive a drooped nose was the Fairey Delta 2, a British experimental high-speed aircraft. Nicknamed "Droop Snoot", [ 1 ] the Delta 2 featured a relatively long tapered nose, which smoothly flowed into its cylindrical cross-section fuselage , to generate a high level of aerodynamic efficiency. [ 2 ]
Retractable propeller of the Stemme S10: When the engine, which is behind the cockpit, is shut down the prop folds and the nose cone slides back, leaving a clean nose. Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. [6] General characteristics. Crew: 1 pilot; Capacity: 1 passenger; Length: 8.42 m (27 ft 7 in)
james.gordon6108/Flickr Andrew Lamberty, a 41-year-old British real estate magnate, has purchased the nose cone of a British Airways Concorde for roughly $160,000 with the intention of hanging it ...
When found on fixed-wing aircraft with forward-looking radar, as are commonly used for object or weather detection, the nose cones often additionally serve as radomes. On airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft (e.g. the American E-3 Sentry ), a discus -shaped rotating radome, often called a " rotodome ", is mounted on the top of ...