- a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor.
- Aeronautics.
- a funnel-shaped device attached to the end of a hose on a tanker aircraft for connecting with the probe of another aircraft to be refueled in flight.
- drogue parachute (def. 1).
- any funnel-like device, esp one of canvas, used as a sea anchor
- a small parachute released behind a jet aircraft to reduce its landing speed
- a small parachute released before a heavier main parachute during the landing of a spacecraft
- a device towed behind an aircraft as a target for firing practice
- a funnel-shaped device on the end of the refuelling hose of a tanker aircraft, to assist stability and the location of the probe of the receiving aircraft
- another name for windsock
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