drogue
4.At the end of the hose is a funnel-shaped drogue, a basket that resembles an oversized shuttlecock.
5.The drogue stabilizes the trailing hose and provides a lead into the connector at the end of the hose.
6.Early versions of the probe-and-drogue receiving equipment were bulky (especially for fighters) and fuel transfer rates were slow.
7.The probe-and-drogue method also placed a high workload on the pilot of the receiving aircraft because the early drogues were not very stable and tended to wander in tight circles.
