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Drogue
Drogue meaning
A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. | A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. | A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute, or to slow a rapidly-moving vehicle to a speed where it can safely deploy a larger parachute.
Example sentences (12)
Its boom-type refueling apparatus differs from the probe-and-drogue refueling gear used by Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.
During the latest test, one out of the two drogue parachutes and one out of the three main parachutes were intentionally disabled.
The U.S Air Force’s refueling aircraft participating in Red Flag 19-2 were boom operated air-to-air refueling systems and the Growlers utilize a drogue air-to-air refueling system, which the Colombian MMTT Jupiter 767 provides.
In February, the first in a series of reliability tests of the Boeing flight drogue and main parachute system was conducted by releasing a long, dart-shaped test vehicle from a C-17 aircraft over Yuma, Arizona.
At 16:44 UTC the drogue parachutes had been deployed and seven minutes later the Command Module struck the water forcefully.
At convert the drogue parachute stabilized the spacecraft and was followed at convert by the three main parachutes.
However, because Eustace's jump involved a drogue parachute while Baumgartner's did not, their vertical speed and free fall distance records remain in different record categories.
KC-135 crews refueled both Air Force and Navy / Marine Corps aircraft; though they would have to change to probe and drogue adapters depending upon the mission, the Navy not having fitted their aircraft with flying boom receptacles.
Shacklady 1962, p. 129. The long term answer to this question was the in-flight refuelling ; several Meteors were provided to Flight Refuelling Limited for trials of the newly developed probe-and-drogue refuelling techniques.
The pods themselves are Flight Refueling Limited (FRL) MK.32B model pods, and refuel via the probe and drogue method, rather than the primary " flying boom " method.
The USAF aircraft are equipped primarily for providing the fuel via a tail-mounted refueling boom, and can be equipped with "probe and drogue" refueling systems.
This can cause the lines to become tangled or a situation where the parachute drogue is not released from the container.