At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.
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Nosefirst
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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.
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Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.
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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.
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