Originally Posted by
Flugplatz
The SA330 Puma (original versions) has a hatch at the rear of the fuselage/junction tail boom. I know the French used to do mil. parachute that way with rounds (mainly exercise only for re-qualification purposes otherwise it was C-160 Transal). So static line and limited sticks
The RAF certainly didn’t use the rear hatch. We had a servicing ladder on brackets over the bubble window, held in place by pip pins. As far as I’m aware, the only thing to go through it was a load pole, accidentally of course. It fell on someone’s balcony in Guildford.