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.
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
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."