nose wheel

noun

1. a wheel fitted to the forward end of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft

Example Sentences

The captain managed to use the nose wheel tiller to keep the plane near the runway centerline until the pedals unstuck.

From Seattle Times

After landing, when taxiing the plane at a low speed, the pilot makes sharper turns off the runway or into a gate not with the rudder but by turning the nose wheel of the aircraft using a steering tiller on a side console.

From Seattle Times

To cap it all off, on Jan. 20, the nose wheel of a Delta Boeing 757 plane came off and actually rolled away while the plane taxied on the runway.

From Slate

The incident has drawn attention to other issues cropping up on Boeing planes, including the nose wheel of a different Boeing plane model, a 757, which popped off as it was lining up for takeoff in the US on Saturday.

From BBC

A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from Atlanta’s main airport on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

From New York Times