Originally Posted by
Fly.Buy
Just wondered in the early days of passenger jets, which airliners were fitted with brake parachutes, was it regular for them to be deployed on landing and when did this procedure eventually stop?
In the case of the Caravelle (and presumably the Tupolevs, though I'm not 100% sure about those), brake parachutes compensated for the lack of reverse thrust.
So the answer to the second part of your question is that when reversers were eventually introduced (in the case of the Caravelle, with the VIR) then brake parachutes became redundant.