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Definition of Nose dive
1. Noun. A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nose Dive
Literary usage of Nose dive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Flying: Complete Course of Flying Instruction by William Gordon McMinnies, Henry Graeme Anderson (1918)
"Nose Diving The nose dive is the opposite to the zoom, and is performed by ...
It is wise to cut off the engine before making a nose dive, because this ..."
2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"A nose-dive (1); occurs when a descent is made at too great a speed and too steep
an angle, so that supporting pressure is lost. ..."
3. An Explorer in the Air Service by Hiram Bingham (1920)
"This caused the plane to fall immediately into a vrille or "spinning nose dive."
In order to come out of the spin, the rudder is at first placed exactly in ..."
4. The Lafayette Flying Corps by Charles Nordhoff (1920)
"That brings you out in a nose-dive, then you haul back the stick, ... The acrobatics
consist of vrilles — a spinning nose-dive with the motor cut; ..."
5. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"It usually results from failure to shut off the engine in time when going into
a nose dive, and is likely to cause complete loss of control. ..."
6. Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp by Pat O'Brien (1918)
"It may be well to explain here just what a spinning nose dive is. A few years
ago the spinning nose dive was considered one ..."
7. Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace and Its Commercial Future by Evan John David (1919)
"nose diveS Owing to the fact that a pilot must have altitude in order to get out
of a nose dive, it is well not to try them near the ground. ..."
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