About 15% of every aircraft delivered globally is manufactured by UK companies, with the rear fuselage, batteries, ejector seats and actuators for the entire F-35 global fleet made in the UK.

Because they have, you know, ejection seats. The technology dates back to the 1910s, when it first popped as an idea into the head of a parachute maker named Everard Calthrop, followed shortly ...

Developed by Boeing Defense, the F-15EX is a fighter aircraft. Credit: © RTX. RTX business Collins Aerospace has secured a contract to install 144 Advanced Concept ...

Boeing Defense has awarded Collins Aerospace a contract to provide 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seats (ACES) for U.S. Air Force F-15EX fighters. The contract, which will be performed in Colorado ...

COLORADO SPRINGS - Collins Aerospace, a unit of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has secured a contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with 144 ACES II® ejection seats for its F-15EX aircraft, as announced on ...

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 ...

RTX’s (RTX) Collins Aerospace business has been awarded a contract from Boeing (BA) Defense to provide 144 ACES II ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15EX fleet. There are currently ...

Sir James Martin, a British engineer, worked with Captain Valentine Baker to found the Martin-Baker aircraft company and develop usable ejection seats. Martin-Baker pioneered the development of ...