I recently picked up a story of a Tu-104A Stratoexpress of Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (CSA) landing at London Heathrow in April 1960 using a pair of braking parachutes to stop when it landed ‘hot’. The report mentioned that the Caravelle also had this facility…
Which started me thinking… did any other airliners in service make use of this type of braking?
By: Loose-Head - 18th September 2010 at 21:54
Could be wrong ( frequently am) because I don’t know where I remember this from but think that the Convair 990 had a braking chute fitted.
By: longshot - 18th September 2010 at 21:49
Braking Parachutes on Airliners
Photos of Caravelles and TU-104s using chutes on:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=&airlinesearch=&countrysearch=&specialsearch=&daterange=&keywords=caravelle+parachute&range=&sort_order=photo_id+desc&page_limit=15&thumbnails=
I imagine the Baade-152 might have had a chute but it didn’t go into service
By: Scouse - 18th September 2010 at 21:29
I remember Liverpool’s first Caravelle using one in November 1964. Liverpool’s first jet, actually.
By: wieesso - 18th September 2010 at 20:21
yeah… but that was one of the pre-production testing a/c…. I said in service! *winks*
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By: GrahamSimons - 18th September 2010 at 20:19
yeah… but that was one of the pre-production testing a/c…. I said in service! *winks*
By: wieesso - 18th September 2010 at 20:17
Concorde
http://le.pointu.free.fr/premier/large/1969-03-02_premier_vol_08.jpg
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