This is about Boeing's first problems with the TURBOJET's
"spooled-up" requirement during approach. Can anyone
provide the photo /link to a jpeg to the old photo's of the USAF's
B47, in flight during approach, with the Approach
Drag Chute DEPLOYED.
Photos are published in the following magazine and book (but I can't locate the same images on the web):
_Flying Safety Magazine_, August, 1955; pg 25:
[Photographs show four images of the B-47 in flight with the approach drag-chute deployed.]
“Approach Chute -- The landing speed of the B-47 jet bomber has been considerably reduced through the use of an approach drag chute…. The ’47 has used a parachute for braking purposes [after landing] for six years. The new parachute will not take the place of the 32-foot landing deceleration chute, but will be additional equipment, deployed in the air to permit a steeper descent for landing approach.
“The new parachute is approximately 16 feet in diameter … Using this approach control device ... makes for better control on landing approaches ... The use of parachutes permits pilots to maintain engine power during landing, thus assuring engine response ...”
Bill Cook,
_Road to the 707_, pg 189, shows four earlier images with the caption
"XB-47 Drag Chute Landing Sequence -- Moses Lake, 1948"