At least he waited until they were off the ground!.............
“At least he waited until they were off the ground!.............”
That Martin Baker ejection seat is good for a ground level ejection. You first take a short rocket ride and then the chute deploys.
A midshipman on his summer cruise aboard my carrier dropped something he was fidgeting with while his F-4B familiarization ride was waiting for a trip to the catapult. As he bent over to pick it up, he steadied himself by hanging onto the face-curtain loop.
He ALMOST found out how far you can pull it before starting the ejection sequence. A flightdeck chief jumped on the bird and pounded on the canopy just in the nick of time.