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Well if I remember correctly over at Skydive Deland they have a twin with a rear door? It looks like a Shorts (you know a trailor home with wings), but I'm not sure exactly what they fly.

But anything with a rear ramp seems like a perfect jump aircraft to me, there are no chances of tail strike, you are already past it.

Though my intrest in this thread is pure my best guess.
 
When I last jumped at DeLand, it was a Skyvan. It too, has it's limitations, as do all aircraft. The rear exit isn't very large, and it's possible if performing a diving exit aft and not down, to strike the raised ramp.

Rear facing doors and ramps do make for nice exits, though.

The suit isn't what has caused the other tail strikes. The others were done by people doing normal skydiving. Consider, however, that even camera suits use large area fabric and underarm webbing to control fall rate. Our recommendation was to exit with the arms back in a track configuration to preclude inflating the suit too early, and to exit only with a good cut.
 

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