Sentence examples for drogue from inspiring English sources

The crew would deploy a small drogue parachute in the tail, point the glider's nose down so it could fall quickly into thicker air, and then jettison the chute.

When Walt Arfons died of pneumonia in Akron on June 4 at 96, six years after his brother's death, he was remembered for designing, building and racing the first jet-powered dragster and for adopting drogue parachutes, previously used in aircraft, to act as racecar brakes.

His perfection of jet engine use in racing also led him to adopt the now widely used drogue parachutes that safely stop drag racing machines.

He was supposed to be stabilized during his fall by a small drogue parachute, but on one training jump in 1959 it did not open because the cord got tangled around his neck.

As every turn revealed new vistas of architectural bombast, my Haitian friend in the passenger seat was shaking his head, muttering the same word over and over: Drogue.

Mr. Baumgartner hopes to remain stable and conscious throughout his longer fall without relying on a drogue parachute.

As the men started to bail they knew they needed a new drogue, fast.

The drogue chutes had opened 20 seconds earlier.

The pilots of the Vostok series had to parachute from their spacecraft, but the Voskhod cosmonauts remained in their ship, making a hard-surface landing that involved the use of drogues (special parachutes) and retrorockets.

In 10-minute shifts, the men worked the lines that held the drogues, passing them out as Wanderer slid down the back of a wave, pulling in hard to bring its bow through the crest, while the second crewman bailed.

He shouted to Brockbank, and they both hauled hard on the drogues to try to pull the boat through the foam, but it was impossible.