PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Using a Chute to stop
View Single Post
Old 2nd September 2007 | 23:04
  #51 (permalink)  
JT Eagle
20 Anniversary
 
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 56
Likes: 2
From: Beyond the Blue Horizon
A-4 chutes

Not quite true - only some export models and the A-4M had braking chutes. The A-4G for the RAN didn't and the A-4K did, and they used it almost all the time. Brazil's AF-1s, which were once Kuwait's A-4KUs have chutes. Unless anyone knows of another type, I think Brazil's Skyhawks are the only carrier-based aircraft to be equipped with brake chutes, although A-4Ms did occasionally appear on carriers. Or did A-3 Skywarriors have chutes?

JT
JT Eagle is offline  
Reply