Originally Posted by
Twin Wasp
Lots of planes had rocket packs for engine out performance. I flew a Twin Beech that still had the humps on the engines for a RATO package. That would have been a wild ride. Rio had the rocket in the tail of a Metro go off taxiing out in Waco during the arming check and didn't even know it.
I know some mechs that fired one on a Metro (they had a shelf life) with the brakes off and it moved the airplane about ten feet
