Whatever the problems with bang-seats, they beat the hell out of not having them! They arrived in the Meteor F8 and subsequent marks. Nick Carter's book "Meteor Eject!" lists in an Appendix all of the 400-odd Meteor fatal accidents (out of a total of 800-odd Meteor flying accidents) and you can surmise how many of these pilots (and 10 navs) wold have llived if they had had bang-seats. The carnage was staggering by current peace-time standards. I doubt whether Joe Public would have stood for it in this era!