The ejection seat was developed to make escaping a plane ... Inventor Anastase Dragomir pioneered an escape capsule design in the late 1920s, securing French patent #678,566.

“At 600 mph there’s tremendous aerodynamic pressure pushing down on you,” says John Hampton, engineering manager of the Goodrich ACES II ejection seat, the model that saved the lives of the ...

Astonishingly, the A-3 was not equipped with ejection seats, leading Navy service members to joke morbidly that the A-3D ...

Instead, the Argentine aircraft maker will turn to a Russian ejection-seat to supply the ... and the company is also looking at a single-seat design, Arganaraz said. Arganaraz said the extent ...

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 ...

Meet the Russian Ka-50 “Black Shark,” the world’s only attack helicopter with a jet-style ejection seat. Designed for ... breaks every rule of helicopter design. Peter Navarro: We are ...

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 ...