droop nose

He stood in the shadow cast by the drooping nose cone.

Just standing in a lake looking a little ungainly with her large drooping nose and huge body.

For instance, the famous "droop nose" can still be lowered and raised.

It has a pointed and slightly drooped nose with a short, single piece canopy just ahead of the wings.

The ugly duckling-into-swan metamorphosis when the drooped nose swings back into place.

Has squinty eyes and a drooping nose with prominent nostrils.

Marshall's company built under subcontract the famous droop nose for Concorde.

The golden beams shone on a pale, wrinkled face with a long, drooping nose and mournful mouth.

The car was launched and raced in the season's early races with a distinctive narrow and drooping nose.

The FD2 had a drooped nose (10 degrees) which was later developed for Concorde.

This design had no official name that was used publicly, however it has been referred to as the Droop Nose Design.

The droop nose was accompanied by a moving visor that retracted into the nose prior to being lowered.

I unluckily happened to dower Aunt Kate with a 'long, drooping nose.'

The nose area used the rising ramp from the B-70, as opposed to the drooping nose of the Concorde or Boeing 2707.

The use of high-lift devices on the leading edge of the wing lowered the landing angles to the point where the "drooping nose" was not required.

Enabling pilots to see is what results in that heavy, drooping nose, and the nose is what makes the Concorde a somewhat sluggish supersonic plane.

At first glance it might seem like an improbable celebrity, what with its Quasimodo-like hump, its massive drooping nose and its prickly crust of barnacles.

Heavy bodied and long-legged, with a drooping nose, moose (Alces alces) are the largest members of the deer family.

The Concorde droop nose was designed and manufactured under sub contract by Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge, UK.

He had a momentary, scared glimpse of their faces, thin and unnaturally long, with long, drooping noses and drooping mouths of half-spectral, half-idiotic solemnity.

The TU-144 Charger bore such an eerie resemblance to the Concorde, down to its triangular wings and drooping nose, that cynics quickly dubbed it the Concordov.

The drooping nose and the ascending moustache had, however, to be hidden for a moment with the white hand, before he could go on; he enjoyed the effect he made so much.

His dark eyes were small and set close together; his mouth was wide, thin, and loose; and his nose was peculiarly limber, a long, drooping nose, apparently boneless.

The individual who opened the accordian-gate on the second floor was a round-shouldered man in his early sixties, with moist skin, a self-deprecating cast to his eyes, and an impressively drooping nose.

The women of that class especially seemed positively fascinated by the long drooping nose, the peaked chin, the heavy lower lip, the black silk eyepatch and band slanting rakishly over the forehead.