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• n  a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane
• n  a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
• n  restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind
• n  a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly

• Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin.
• An automatic mechanism will break out a small, tough drogue parachute, simultaneously releasing a puff of chaff (reflecting metal foil) to help watching radars to pick up the .
• Once out of the layer, he triggered his drogue parachute by hand at 40,000 ft.

• windsock
• wind sock
• sock
• air sock
• air-sleeve
• wind sleeve
• wind cone
• sea anchor
• drogue chute
• drogue parachute

News & Articles

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• Boeing's first KC-46A test tanker to fly this summer
  A Boeing KC-46A, derived from the 767-200ER, on the assembly line in Everett. An artist’s conception of the KC-46A tanker from the perspective of a fighter pilot approaching a refueling drogue.
  Jan. 21, 2014 - Everett Herald

Quotes

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• Youssou N’Dour in Independent
  He was worried for me,N'Dour says. "You know, for reasons of drogue [drugs], bad living, things like this. But I was determined. We argued."