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Nope, but it sounds grisly. Ejection is a fraught business in ‘ideal’ conditions, but you read about crew who have ejected from an SR-71 at Mach 3+ and have to wonder about how they fared, even though they made it out.
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Found a quote. His navigator unfortunately didn't survive.
“It felt like somebody had just hit me with a train,” said Udell. “When I went out into the wind stream, it ripped my helmet right off my head, broke all the blood vessels in my head and face, my head was swollen the size of a basketball and my lips were the size of cucumbers. My left elbow was dislocated and pointed backward, the only thing holding my leg on was an artery, the vein, the nerve and the skin and my left leg snapped at the bottom half.”
To make his story even more incredible it was nightime and over a stormy sea. He had to climb into a life raft with those injuries.
Stonehedge
Did you ever see that shitty TV show on Discovery in the 10s called "When pilots eject"?
It had an interview with a US pilot who survived a supersonic ejection. Holy shit! I'm not sure what is more amazing, the fact he survived or the fact he survived and flew military jets again!
I'm talking all four limbs nearly severed, head swollen like a basket ball, spinal injuries...