I can remember in the early 60s watching a firepower demonstration at Eglin. One thing which was a crowd pleaser was they would have a Hercules land in an overgrown field, reverse it’s props and just before stopping on a dime, it would then roar away again.
That was over 50 years ago.
I helped install the mounting brackets for the Gatling gun on one of the old C-47s (gooney birds) that was the first puffs. This was also at Eglin AFB in Florida.