she inserted the safety pins in the rear sear of my seat and various other locations , rendering anything that could go bang safe , and then un-attached ( or was it dis-attached ) ( nope , released ) me from lady s. after she had lowered herself into the waist high foam i removed my mask and helmet and dutifully handed them to her , and then stood on her surcoat ( which she had fortuitously placed on the ejection seat seat-pan , my boots were soaked in hydraulic fluid ) and slipped one foot over the sill and into the step on the outside of the fuselage .