Originally Posted by
Doctor Cruces
All of the V bombers used chutes
This was true for the Victor and I am not sure about the Valiant but not all the time in the Vulcan.
The Vulcan use aerodynamic braking which saved the hastle of chute recovery, repacking, replacing etc. From time to time we had a mandatory stream simply to get the b
r out of its box for routine servicing and repacking.
It was also mandatory to stream on runways of less than 6000 feet unless there was a cross-wind and probability of weather cocking. 'twas a rare short runway landing where we didn't have a crosss wind
Mind you, while airfields have their main runway into wind this does not mean that the strongest winds are along the main runway axis juts that that is the direction of the prevailing wind.