Definition of "nosecones" [nosecones]

• Plural form of nosecone. (noun)

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• "He found that his small size gave him an advantage in reaching inside the nosecones, letting his crew avoid the delay of having another team come out to remove those cowlings and thus to cut the planes 'time out of service."
• "For every 10 $billion dollar luxury spaceplane and every ten - 1 $billion dollar luxury capsules visiting a 100 $billion dollar luxury space hotel, you'll want ten - 100 million dollar human rated reentry lifeboats and a hundred - 10 $million dollar minimal cargo return nosecones which can double as crew bailout escape modules and lifeboat capsules."
• "This despite the warheads are clearly visible and identifiable by the silver coating they exhibit when viewed through a little window in each nosecone cover, and because there are red coverings on the nuke nosecones — once the plane got to Barksdale, the ground crew there, which had no reason on earth to suspect it was looking at nuclear warheads, spotted them immediately upon going to the plane."