"Jim Carter" wrote

Ejection seat? In an O-2?

The models I was around had a yellow handle on the front door post
connected to some pins to drop the door, but the pilot went out the same
way he got in. Same as the O-1 Birddog.

How could the ejection seat get out past the wing spar carry-though and
overhead plumbing?

I don't know the answers to the exact solutions, but a little googling did
show that the later models did indeed have ejection seats.

Either that, or the pictures were of seats with really, really big, bulky
headrests! g
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Jim in NC