Salute!
Gotta go with Okie about the ACES seat in the Viper. And it worked, and worked and......back in the day, and up to now. Best view is of the T-Bird dude at Mountain Home that didn't use correct altitude for the maneuver and ejected a few milliseconds before impact....plenty of videos and one super still shot from the tower.
I had better luck/opinion about the Sluf seat than Okie, and maybe he was just "wider", heh heh. Flew very long missions, especially in Thailand tours and ferrying the things across the big pond (think 13 hours for one of the legs) and one thing that helped me was a lumbar pad, otherwise beat the hell outta lugging a chute up that skimpy ladder.
That M-B seat for the Harriers and now for the F-35 must be pretty good and has great track record. Mogs could add to that opinion.
Gums chimes in....
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