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Last seen on: –Daily Crossword Club Crossword Thursday, 14 December 2023
–Daily Boston Globe Crossword Sunday, 30 April 2023
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Random information on the term “Droops”:
The droop nose or drooped nose is a feature fitted to a small number of aircraft designs, the majority of these being also equipped with delta wings and capable of supersonic speeds.
It is typically fitted upon an aircraft that possesses a sharp nose-up attitude during the takeoff and landing phases of flight, which would result in a conventional nose cone obscuring the flight crew’s view of the runway and ground alike. On an aircraft fitted with a droop nose, the pilot is able to lower the nose cone, thereby improving visibility. Throughout the majority of a flight, the nose would be kept in the raised position for greater aerodynamic efficiency. Droop noses have typically been installed on supersonic airliners, such as Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144, and high-speed experimental aircraft, such as the record-breaking Fairey Delta 2 and the Sukhoi T-4 strategic bomber.
The first supersonic delta to receive a drooped nose was the Fairey Delta 2, a British experimental high-speed aircraft. 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. It was recognised that such a lengthy nose would negatively impact the pilot’s forward vision during landing, take-off and ground movements; thus, to retain the aerodynamically optimised nose cone while also providing adequate downwards visibility, the drooped nose was devised. Accordingly, the nose section of the Delta 2, including the cockpit, could be drooped by 10° using a hydraulically actuated mechanism. A similar arrangement was subsequently adopted on Concorde’s “Droop Snoot”.