There are some older aircraft designs that saw the pilots ... When the pilot or co-pilot initiate the ejection system, explosive bolts holding the contra-rotating blades to the fuselage release ...

The case of the V-Bombers highlighted just how much ejector seats had changed military aviation. Pilots had grown to expect a high-tech escape system to evacuate their aircraft in a crisis.

But there comes a time when, no matter how advanced the defensive systems ... Ejection Seat (ACES) first came to be in the 1970s, and it is currently used in a large number of military aircraft ...

In 1944 the firm was approached by the Ministry of Defence and asked to investigate ejection systems for high-speed fighter aircraft, a task made all the more poignant by Captain Baker's own death ...

This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

In 1944 the firm was approached by the Ministry of Defence and asked to investigate ejection systems for high-speed fighter aircraft, a task made all the more poignant by Captain Baker's own death ...