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Sometimes, ejector seats were fitted into prototypes but were dropped from later production models (as in the case of<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tupolev-tu-144\/\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Tu-144 &#8211; the Soviet&#39;s flawed Concorde challenger<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">). 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