As a trainee JP pilot 1960-62 I remember the initial nervousness of sitting on the MB Mk4P seat giving way to the feeling of security that it engendered. Even at that early period of my RAF career I knew that a lot of that security was down to the cold blooded courage of the RAF Doctors at Farnborough. Rest in Peace Sir, and thank you for your selfless devotion to duty on behalf of we aircrew.
Sad to say the feeling above became somewhat dissipated as the ejection seat gave way to a parachute on the Varsity and then to nothing at all on the Hastings and the Hercules. Some rot about demoralizing the pax if they saw the crew wearing parachutes while making their way slowly aft towards the escape exit!