Sentence examples for drogue parachute from inspiring English sources

A drogue parachute would be particular help for the operation.

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

However, because the hardware cannot handle a 180 degree flip (pitch) when the main chute pops out, the drogue parachute is removed from the system.

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.

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.

At that point a small 1.5 metre (5 ft) drogue parachute is fired from a gun, stabilising the seat motion.

An earlier version referred to "drone" parachutes, when drogue parachutes was meant.

Two 16‐foot‐diameter nylon drogue parachutes popped out of the cone‐shaped end of the seared spacecraft at 1 02 P.M. to begin the final splashdown sequence.

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.

At the time, the parachute system included 2 drogue parachutes and 3 main parachutes.

Over 2 years later, SpaceX has modified the original Dragon design to create the human-rated Crew Dragon version, which will use drogue parachutes and 4 main parachutes.