Thanks BEages. Let's agree to disagree!
As to ride quality in turbulence given a cockpit on the end of a long nose IAM did some very interesting work on crew performance in these circumstances. Basically the human torso and arms when faced with heave type oscillatory inputs has a natural frequency of some 4 c/s. If the seat hits that forget any control or ability to do things. So you need to sort the structural modes out to avoid that area. Best of all if the CG is banged up and down the long nose experiences a sinusoidal type standing structural wave between the CG and the nose cone. So if you are clever you put the crew at a node and they don't feel a thing. I believe that the good ride of the Buccaneer was because this happened - albeit perhaps more by chance than design.
BEages will know more.