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Old 1st Aug 2016, 12:26
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Up to a point I suppose, in theory, you can power back most civil airliners.

At LGW in the days of the South Park stands, I had occasion to reverse a Britannia or two (4 x 16ft props) off the stand with ATC permission. I did it again at BOM when parked at a terminal gate - which was on fire as was the terminal, so I just got on with it. Had to save the aircraft, it was the only one we had at the time!
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