I've always been surprised, although I shouldn't have been, by how many pilots who eject are subsequently declared unfit to fly again.
Quite how a pilot my height would bang out of one I have no idea as my knees were underneath the instrument panel, and if I'd have had to eject it would haven taken my kneecaps off! 
Ah that's why pilot selection now starts off with measuring you. I remember that old BBC documentary series about selecting and training fighter pilots. The first thing they did with the applicants at the then Biggin Hill selection centre was seat them in an old tin bath tub. If they didn't fit, unlucky.
The only guy who passed out as an actual pilot (C.130's) from that intake had been a milkman

The Sword of Honour winner ended up a navigator. Why do I remember these details ?
