Haha good story! But the fronts are just escape hatches and they open outward into the slipstream. I’d say its impossible to open it more than a few inches in flight. Like opening your car door at 200 mph. I was a Flight Engineer on them C-23’s in the Army NG. Now the back doors you can open in flight! Maybe it was a back one. I had a pilot get the craps and we didn’t have a toilet onboard, just a bucket... so he poops in a trash bag placed in the bucket. Next thing I know, there was a huge WOOoooshhh of air and a bunch of banging in the back. Well he thought he would just open the door and toss out the bag o shit. The back door is a bi-fold door and you have to lock it to solid door with a bar to open it in flight. So it was just swinging around beating the crap out of him! No parachute, no monkey safety harness... Just him and a bag of shit. So I ran back and we both got the door closed... lol it was crazy and funny. 18,000’ over the Rockies! He must have been Hypoxic.
I went to Iraq with the Sherpa in 03-04 and we contemplated hanging machine gun “Nam” style from the back doors. That didn’t happen but it would have been fun. Low (25’-250’) and fast was our tactic. Good times... Great airplane!
No. The front door on the right side of the shorts opened front to back and could absolutely be opened inflight. The back doors opened back to front and could not be opened inflight. I flew on them for 6 years- google them and you can see the hinges are on the back side of the doors, closest to the back of the plane.
Also, when the door was opened, it slammed so hard against the side of the plane it sounded like an explosion according to the pilots. The metal was twisted where the door hit the side of the plane.
And crazy story!!! I bet you have so many more!!! I sure miss being around airline people!!!