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nose cone [′nōz ‚kōn] (aerospace engineering) A protective cone-shaped case for the nose section of a missile or rocket; may include the warhead, fusing system, stabilization system, heat shield, and supporting structure and equipment. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the mid-1960s, a range of graphite-reinforced epoxy composite parts such as wing tips, nose cones, tail caps, trailing edges of wings, and air-inlet ducts were developed for military jets such as Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter, LTV Aerospace's A7A Corsair II, Grumman's W2F-Hawkeye (with a carbon-fiber propeller), and the Phantom F4. The sculptures are the color of bone, or cake batter, or pissed-on ice, or corroded Styrofoam; their sweeping, torquing, fluted shapes suggest missiles and jawbones, wings and surfboards, seedpods, tail fins, flukes, nose cones, and cartilage. Their experiment was titled ``A Field Test to Determine the Accuracy of the Calculated Drag Coefficients for Rocket Nose Cones of Various Shapes. |
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