airplane flare meaning
[Engineering]
"A flare, often magnesium, that is dropped from an airplane to illuminate a ground area, a small parachute decreases the rate of descent."
"A flare, often magnesium, that is dropped from an airplane to illuminate a ground area, a small parachute decreases the rate of descent."
Examples
- On July 11, 1918, " we experienced our first airplane flare . . . ( which ) hung in its parachute and burned five minutes with a yellowish, eerie glare that shed its light over the entire landscape,"
