The overall style of these has been described as highly pianistic, full of fantasy and colour, and technically demanding, while incorporating a forward-looking harmonic vocabulary.
When found on fixed-wing aircraft with forward-looking radar (as are commonly used for object or weather detection), the nose cones often additionally serve as radomes.
The sugar industry was transformed from a run-down, unprofitable, inhuman, paternalistic and plantocratic expatriate family concern into a rehabilitated, forward-looking, productive and dynamic enterprise.