How To Use Drogue In A Sentence
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Probe-and-drogue refueling has been around since the 1940s. but no-one has attempted it with unmanned aircraft at high altitude (up to 60,000ft) and low speed (160ft), where deploying and stabilizing the drogue will be a challenge because of the low air density and dynamic pressure.
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Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin.
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‘When a storm hits, we'll put the drogue out, batten down and see it out,’ said Tim.
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Soon he signaled us that he was nearly out of line, and two or three minutes after, he bent on his "drogue" (a square piece of plank with a rope tail spliced into its center, and considered to hinder a whale's progress at least as much as four boats) and let go the end.
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A shuttlecock drogue can be trailed behind the boom and used to refuel aircraft equipped with refuelling probes.
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Those so-called drogue chutes are designed to trigger release of the main parachutes, each 35 meters (116 feet) in diameter.
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Until 4 July, few people checked the line between the drogue and the main parachute.
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I fly fast approaches 99% of the time but in Croatia I was amazed at how secure this wing executed slow RLF approaches with and without a drogue.
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They felt the drogue bite and Carter immediately started the generator to power the banks of batteries which, in turn, powered the winch.
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They wore flannel shirts over loose-fitting pants fashioned of droguet, or drugget, a durable and coarse woolen fabric.
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Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator.
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Tonight we might — we might fix some kind of drogue to her bottom.
Hornblower In The West Indies
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The winch would have to have some kind of rewind capability and a small drogue to ensure it couldn't recoil into the tug's propeller.
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This consisted of a small 6 feet (2 m) stabilizer or "drogue" parachute, designed to prevent uncontrolled spinning at high altitudes, and a 28 ft (8.5 m) main parachute that deployed at a lower altitude.
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Woods plugged in again and got another green light from the drogue.
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The drogues, big cone-shaped canvas contraptions like oversized windsocks, made effective sea anchors.
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The Viking crew verified the trailing-wire antenna was in and the drogue seated.
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Those so-called drogue chutes are designed to trigger release of the main parachutes, each 35 meters (116 feet) in diameter.
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Then he loses the drogue and deploys a parafoil-type chute under which he glides the capsule all the way to the ground.
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They would fly a few feet over the drop zone and then deploy the cargo using a small drogue parachute.
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The aircraft can be equipped with an optional probe for probe and drogue refuelling, so the range can be extended by in-flight refuelling.
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All the weight aft or we will pitchpole before we can get a drogue out.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The range and endurance time are also extended by in-flight refuelling, using a probe and drogue inflight refuelling system.
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These are capable of refuelling Navy and NATO aircraft, which use a probe and drogue system instead of a boom and receptacle.
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To pull the drogue, I hook the ring with my thumb.
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The drogue itself is fitted with small lights around the perimeter to help night operations.
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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.
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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
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With today's gliders you might need a drogue chute to land there.
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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
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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.
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First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
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Drifting free like this is ok in a gentle breeze but if the wind is a little stronger, a drogue may be needed.
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We disengaged the drogue and moved to the right side of our lead's aircraft.
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The air refueling system consists of a probe and drogue airborne refueling system.
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A small drogue chute peeked out of the pack and began to extract the rest of the material.
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The 767 aircraft can be modified to accommodate refuelling wingpods and a centreline hose for probe and drogue refuelling.
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She was down almost to her gunwales in the waist, the seas washing forward over her flat aft deck, the drogue line stiff out astern.
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En gros, le transfert d'à peine 10% des dépenses liées à du mal être drogue, armes, surconsommation et générant de la maltraitance permettrait à l'humanité de manger, boire et se soigner!
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The 767 aircraft can be modified to accommodate refuelling wingpods and a centreline hose for probe and drogue refuelling.
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In the drill the second aircraft plugs its fuel connection pipe into the fuel drogue trailed by the lead aircraft.
