<p>Here's the back seater's cockpit on the SR-71. Nice, glossy black ejection seat, shiny red head-rest. Possibly the front seat is the same shiny black for the metal parts. Note zinc gold hydraulic cylinder to raise the canopy.
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/9998127@N06">Bill Abbott</a>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/4527964406/">SR-71 Systems operator's cockpit, controls, instruments, ejection seat</a>
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