While doing a major service on a hunter in No 1 hangar ( 66 sqdn) 1959, a loud bang was heard for miles around as the ejector seat of another kite in the hangar flew skywards into the roof.Now this is true, the bod in the ****pit was a guy of very small stature, Tich or Tosh Murphy i think his name was, and he'd been sitting in the seat when the Barrastat counted down, and when we rushed to see what had happened the said bod had wrapped himself around the column, his feet and legs thrust deep into the rudder appatures, the back of his jacket slightly scorched from the exploding ejector tube.
Having just read about this, watching today's programme of ITV's quiz show, The Chase, there was an exRAF weapons tech who re-counted the same story.