Sentence examples for drag rope from inspiring English sources
noun
A long, heavy rope carried in the basket of a hot-air balloon and permitted to hang over the side and drag on the ground in order to lighten the basket
The drag rope, or compensator, serves two purposes.
In areas without electrical power lines, balloons can "drag rope" for many kilometres at a time without having to drop sand or release gas.
Important later additions were the rip panel, first used on April 27 , 1839 by the American aeronaut John Wise, and the drag rope, invented about 1830 by the English aeronaut Charles Green.
Their solution, created in connection with architectural researchers Gramizio Kohler, employs four robots working in sync to drag rope around a frame.
If you have a drag rope and a tree nearby, you can tie one of the deer's hind legs up at an angle against the tree to give you better access to the belly for dressing.
On his sixth trip, he used drag ropes to slow the balloon and a sail he designed to try to steer it.
Being able to steer the balloon to some extent was essential for a safe journey, and there was plenty of evidence that the drag-rope steering technique he had invented was ineffective; yet he staked the fate of the expedition on drag ropes.
Moving out low over the water, it was pulled so far down by the friction of the several-hundred-meter-long drag ropes against the ground as to dip the basket into the water.
Use of drag ropes (prone to snapping, falling off, or becoming entangled with each other or the ground, in addition to being ineffective) is not considered by any modern expert to be a useful steering technique.
Drag ropes, which hang from the balloon basket and drag part of their length on the ground, are designed to counteract the tendency of lighter-than-air craft to travel at the same speed as the wind, a situation that makes steering by sails impossible.
Andrée being Sweden's first balloonist, no national had the requisite knowledge to second-guess him about buoyancy or drag ropes; but both Germany and France had long ballooning traditions and several of their more experienced balloonists expressed skepticism about Andrée's methods and inventions.
