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UK
/dɹˈəʊɡ/
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[ US /ˈdɹoʊɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹoʊɡ/ ]
NOUN
- a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly
- restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
- a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
- a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane
How To Use drogue In A Sentence
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- The range and endurance time are also extended by in-flight refuelling, using a probe and drogue inflight refuelling system.
- These are capable of refuelling Navy and NATO aircraft, which use a probe and drogue system instead of a boom and receptacle.
- To pull the drogue, I hook the ring with my thumb.
- The drogue itself is fitted with small lights around the perimeter to help night operations.
- This led us to believe lighting had hit the HF-trailing-wire antenna and the drogue that drags the wire behind the aircraft was lost.
- This “basket,” as aviators call the drogue, holds the hose steady in flight and helps the pilot seeking fuel guide the refueling probe to its target. The Dream Machine
- With today's gliders you might need a drogue chute to land there.
- drogue" (a square piece of plank with a rope tail spliced into its centre, and considered to hinder a whale's progress at least as much as four boats), and let go the end. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
- New generation highly ruggedised and impact resistant air-to-air refuelling drogues have been fitted with gaseous tritium lights with no wires or moving parts.
