why concord planes have tilted nose.?

Answer 1

The nose is tilted down for taxiing, takeoffs, and landings. This is so the pilot can see ahead and below. When in normal flight, it is pointed straight out ahead of the aircraft (for high-speed aerodynamic efficiency), and the only view the pilot has is straight ahead. Obviously, such a view makes it impossible to see the ground, so it is adjustable for those situations.

Answer 2

Concorde Nose

Answer 3

The nose only tilts at take-off and landing, for visibility reasons. The nose then incorporates the fuselage for supersonic flying speeds. That said Concorde no longer flies. Beautiful aircraft though.

Answer 4

The concord had a tilted nose section which allowed the pilot to visually see the runway during landing.

Answer 5

Concorde's famous drooping nose was a compromise between the need for a streamlined design to reduce drag and increase aerodynamic efficiency in flight and the need for the pilot to see properly during taxi, take-off, and landing operations. A delta-wing aircraft takes off and lands with a high angle of attack (that is, a high nose angle) compared to subsonic aircraft due to the way the delta wing generates lift. The pointed nose would obstruct the pilots' view of taxiways and runways, so Concorde's nose was designed to allow for different positioning as appropriate for different operations. The droop nose was accompanied by a moving visor that would be retracted into the nose prior to the nose being lowered. When the nose was raised back to horizontal, the visor would be raised ahead of the front cockpit windscreen for further aerodynamic streamlining in flight.[15]

Concorde's nose is famous as the "droop nose," but in flight the nose was not kept in this position. A controller in the cockpit allowed the visor to be retracted and the nose to be lowered to five degrees below the standard horizontal position for use in taxi and take-off operations. Following take-off and after clearing the airport, the nose and visor would be raised. Shortly before landing, the visor would again be retracted and the nose would be lowered to 12.5 degrees below horizontal for maximum visibility. Upon landing, the nose was quickly raised to the five-degree position to avoid the possibility of damage.[16] On very rare occasions, the aircraft could take off with the nose fully down as well.[17]

A final possible position had the visor retracted into the nose but the nose in the standard horizontal position. This setup was used for cleaning the windscreen and for short subsonic flights

Answer 6

The nose can be tilted down for taxiing, & to allow for forward visibility during take-off & landing. The nose can be tilted up for the cruise attitude.

Answer 7

Because during taxi and takeoff and landing, the nose was obstructing the view of the runway, so it has to be lowered. Once the take off, or land, the nose raises back up.

Answer 8

those in airline provider have been retired following the crash exterior Paris. the reason for the crash replaced right into a burst tyre through touch with a steel strip on the runway that had fallen from yet another airplane. The products of the tyre punctured the gas tank interior the wing above the touchdown kit and the escaping gas caught hearth. i think of that a minimum of between the engines replaced into additionally broken that's why the airplane lost top and crashed. previous to this incident, British airlines had spent some thing like 14 million money revamping the passenger cabin of the 6 airplane it owned. plenty time, attempt and money replaced into additionally placed into designing liners for the gas tanks to evade loss of gas if the comparable, or comparable, element occurred returned. So, it wasn't BA that desperate it did no longer choose to proceed with the airplane, (in any different case why spend all that funds?) yet Airbus and Air France who did no longer choose to proceed helping so few airplane for what they observed as little or no return.

Answer 9

The nose is so long and pointy for aerodynamic reasons made it impossible for the pilot to see when landing and taxi's the plane. So they Had the nose bend down out of the way. When in the air the nose comes up and aerodynamics are restored and the plane can now go super sonic.

Answer 10

So the pilot can see when landing. The nose tilts back up when the plane is in flight.