A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind.
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.
1Beyond it he could see the gleaming metal ribbons of the drogue chute.
2They quickly pulled it in and set out the rucksack drogue.
3They are attached to the drogue using a three-ring release system.
4Edward came up and stood beside me as the drogue was trailed overboard.
5The record-setting flight used a probe-and-drogue system, similar to what the Navy uses today.
6As the men started to bail they knew they needed a new drogue, fast.
7A small drogue parachute was released as planned, followed by the three main parachutes.
8I brought up Fulgham's near-lethal spin and Kittinger's drogue-chute cravat.
9When the top dome is off it will drag the drogue out as well.
10If we do it this way, we may have to kill their drogue riders.
11Greatest distance of free fall without a drogue chute.
12It wasn't enough, so they took off the mainsail to use as a drogue, too.
13The drogue slowed their free-fall speed from two people to that of a single skydiver.
14At four hundred metres, the drogue chute shot up.
15That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère.
16Since we don't, we'll move in column-mefirst, Jake pushing Susannah behind, and you on drogue.