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Wyvernfan:…. that ejector seat…. Stripped for examination / souvenirs no doubt!

Perhaps of interest, Powers reports that he manually bailed out (really more of ripped out of the cockpit), so the seat went down with the aircraft… Yes not much to the seat- everything on the U2 was to be as light as possible- even a bang seat was deemed too heavy initially.