Bailing out at high speeds

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Originally Posted by bongodriver

Yes the sheet is present on any ejector seat with the overhead black and yellow handle, the idea behind it is to provide some protection to the face on egress, but overhed handles were shown to be difficult to reach in an aircraft which is seriously out of controll and inducing high 'g' loads to the pilot, I believe the overhead handles were present in aircraft like the F14 and F4 and as far as I know only Martin Baker seats had them.

So they were present on all the MB seats with the overhead handles? Even so, thanks for that. I guess you learn something new every day