The ejection seat was developed to make escaping a plane ... with other explosive devices that eject the canopy or other parts of the aircraft out of the way prior to launching the pilot to ...

When a plane goes down, an ejection seat keeps pilots from going down with it. Ejecting from an ejection seat is not something a pilot wants to do, but it is something they have to do in case of ...

In 2022, for example, the Air Force grounded its entire fleet of F-35s in a temporary stand-down triggered by concerns about faulty ejection seat parts. Out of 706 ejection seat cartridges ...

This ejection seat was invented by James Martin, who was born in Crossgar, Co. Down, in 1893. In 1934 he founded the Martin-Baker aircraft manufacturing company with his friend Captain Valentine ...

Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract from Boeing Defense to provide 144 ACES II ® ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force's F ...