DC-9 "powerback".
The big sin for those was touching the brakes. If they needed to stop, the drill was to stow the buckets and then apply forward thrust. For if the pilots touched the brakes whilst the airplane was moving backwards, a tail strike would ensue, and that was A Bad Thing.
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How does that work? I would think the forward thrust would cancel the rearward thrust. Is it the angle of the buckets?
The buckets redirect the exhaust forward, so the only forward thrust comes from what fraction of the gas misses the buckets.
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