What is "parachute flares"

Usage examples of "parachute flares".

To the south, not much more than two miles away, the night sky had suddenly blossomed into an incandescent and multi-coloured beauty as scores of parachute flares, red and green and white and orange, lifted slowly down towards the Neretva river.

While he was confident that their system to illuminate the Reine de la Mer by means of parachute flares would probably illuminate the Reine de la Mer enough to permit whoever was firing the torpedoes from the submarine to see the sonofabitch well enough to aim accurately, the chances of the aircraft coming out of the encounter intact were practically nonexistent.

He'd been hovering a hundred meters above the burning parachute flares, and pushed his collective control all the way down to dive among them.

General the Marquis Bradkopf was using parachute flares to provide fireworks for his party.

There were four of them, flying fairly low in a grid search pattern, dropping parachute flares.

Fired off parachute flares so the people in the convoy assumed they were ours.

Porta and I were to drive the tank close up to the house and camouflage it with branches and snow to prevent it being seen by the Russian planes that every night came flying over and dropped parachute flares.

She stuffed the pistol from the chart room under one arm, walked back to the bridge, reading the instructions on the parachute flares.

With breath-taking suddenness there came a hissing roar from the bows of the lifeboat, twin streaks of sparks and smoke and flame lancing upwards into the darkening sky across the submarine's deck and at an angle of about thirty degrees off the vertical and then two incandescent balls of flame burst into life hundreds of feet above the water as both the lifeboat's rocket parachute flares ignited almost at the same instant.

But I figured he'd hate jail even worse, so when we got to our boat I told him to pack his gear while I took a big flare-gun up on deck and fired three huge parachute flares up into the night-- these brutes that cost about ten dollars apiece.