Everyone asks: Do any commercial aircraft use parachutes on landing?

These are known as drogue parachutes and they're deployed from the tail of the aircraft to assist with braking. They enable an aircraft to operate on shorter runways, which is why they're used on some military aircraft. A few commercial aircraft have been fitted with drogue chutes in the past but these days thrust reversers and improved brakes give aircraft greater stopping power. The French-built Caravelle and several Soviet Tupolev passenger aircraft used drogue chutes. The most famous was the Tupolev Tu-144, dubbed the Concordski in the West, the Soviet version of the supersonic Concorde. Due to its delta wing design, the Tupolev had a high landing speed, close to 300 km/h, which increased the possibility of overshooting the runway on landing, and the aircraft was fitted with twin drogue chutes to assist braking. Concorde had the same problem but it was the first aircraft to use carbon fibre brakes, able to withstand the heat generated when braking, and no parachute was required. Drogue chutes come with big downsides, such as the problem of taxiing the aircraft after touchdown and increased turnaround time to allow for repacking the chute.