braking parachute

Braking parachutes were used in addition to conventional wheel brakes.

The seating was re-arranged, and a braking parachute added to the rear.

Deployment of the braking parachute and a considerable height above the ground were essential for a chance at recovery.

Some older Soviet passenger jets had braking parachutes for emergency landings.

Another was the fitment of a braking parachute container below the rudder.

The braking parachutes pull the load from the aircraft and bring it to a stop on the ground within the drop zone.

Fitted with braking parachute and provision for carrying a reconnaissance pod.

Mr. Breedlove said the car's braking parachutes deployed after he shut down his engine.

The braking parachute was streamed but realising the aircraft would not stop in time, the captain opened the throttles to go round.

They were fitted with additional underwing pylons, but not with a braking parachute.

Braking parachute, no air brakes.

The Phoebus C has a braking parachute.

These reduced the take-off distance by nearly 50 percent and a braking parachute was fitted to reduce the landing distance.

Braking parachute added, able to carry defensive armament (MG 34 machine gun)

The torpedo dropped cleanly, its braking parachute trailed out of the tail to make sure the weapon entered the water nose down.

Fitted with braking parachute.

It also had two cruciform braking parachutes deployable from the lower rear fuselage below the rudder.

It had double undercarriage wheels, a braking parachute and attachments for RATO.

As a landing aid the ASW 12 possesses a braking parachute, an unreliable system that lacks modulation.

There, he blinds the alien with the braking parachute on his jet and ejects just before running out of fuel, causing both to crash in the desert.

It is slowed initially by the atmosphere, then by a braking parachute, followed by the main parachute which slows the craft for landing.

Electric servo motors were also fitted to assist in moving the huge trailing edge flaps and further tests caused a braking parachute to also be added.

A provision for a braking parachute is not evident on the mock-up or the various artwork, although this was a common addition for aircraft of the era.

A single Yak-28 converted for testing short takeoff and landing techniques with JATO bottles and braking parachutes.

Braking parachutes are also employed to slow drag racing (NHRA requires them on all vehicles that reach 150 miles per hour) and land speed record vehicles.