B-17 with a drag chute

[Steve Pace]

This is a new one on me. From Fold 3.com -SP

 

[Michel Van]

new for me too


my guess, postwar test for first drag chute.

 

[Steve Pace]

Here's the actual 10/12/44 skinny. -SP

 

[unclejim]

American ingenuity at work! ;D

 

[Nico]

Hi boys,
I don't know if that was the case, but in some occasion the crew of doomed heavy bombers used their parachutes to shorten the landing run in an emergency.
I saw a very nice shot of B-24 landing trailing one or more parachutes but I don't remember where...
Nico