Nosefirst

At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.

However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure.

Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.

The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.

The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.

It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.