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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
I suppose you could eject downward (I believe some of the 60s-era fighters did this) but the human body can take a helluva lot more force transversely than longitudinally, and much more positive Gs (getting shot upwards) than negative (getting shot downwards).
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F 104s ejected downward at first. They later changed that since it wasn't a good "option" in many cases.