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Sea Vixen Observers must have had balls of steel to sit in that cubby hole with only a tiny side window to see out of during a carrier landing.
And during a catapult launch!
I had a colleague who was a former Sea Vixen pilot and he told me his pre-takeoff briefing to a new observer was along the lines of "watch my legs - if anything goes wrong, I won't have time to give an order to eject before I go!"