droop snoot

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An aeroplane nose which tends to lower or which can be lowered.
    — ln normal flight, the droop snoot is straightened out as in normal aircraft. The American built XB-70 plane also had such a droop snoot for this same reason.
  2. A leading edge of an airfoil which can move as a unit to adjust camber. dated
    — […] insufficient data have been gathered so far to establish how much of the good low speed characteristics are due to the "droop snoot" and how much are due to the regular flap.

词形变化

droop snoots plural droopsnoot alternative

词汇关系

下位词
nose

词源

From droop (“drooping”) + snoot (“nose”).
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