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Good primer on ejection seats with medical aspects
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/eject.htm
States most injuries associated with emergency egress are ankle injuries upon landing, but that spinal compression injuries are not uncommon during the ejection sequence per se. Used to be in UK that you got a six month "diniff" (DNF, "do not fly") tag after an ejection no matter what, and three ejections got you grounded physiologoically, if not due to the fact that you use up too many planes.
And KMCEJECT is at:
http://www.ejectionsite.com/index.html
See the F-18 ejection photos, startlingly clear because the craft was rolled over to the camera was looking stright "down" into the cockpit.
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/eject.htm
States most injuries associated with emergency egress are ankle injuries upon landing, but that spinal compression injuries are not uncommon during the ejection sequence per se. Used to be in UK that you got a six month "diniff" (DNF, "do not fly") tag after an ejection no matter what, and three ejections got you grounded physiologoically, if not due to the fact that you use up too many planes.
And KMCEJECT is at:
http://www.ejectionsite.com/index.html
See the F-18 ejection photos, startlingly clear because the craft was rolled over to the camera was looking stright "down" into the cockpit.