Part of my RAF pilot training was on Vampire T11s, which were equipped with ejector seats (we called them "bang-seats"). Never had to use one, TG, but we had drills where you sat on a fully armed bang-seat and fired yourself up a 30-foot vertical ramp. In flight, I remember you wore leg restraining straps to stop your legs being thrown apart and possibly dislocated when you hit the airstream at maybe 400mph. You gripped the ejector handle with your right hand and your right wrist with your left hand and kept your elbows tightly tucked in. All a bit scary, but preferable to the situation when we graduated to single seat Vampire Mk5s and Mk9s, which had no bang-seat. If you got into trouble the drill was simply to wind back the canopy and climb over the side. Made ejecting look like a pretty attractive proposition. I was 18 when I signed up for this. Now I'm older and wiser, if they offered me the chance to do it again I'd probably give it a miss!