Military safety investigators said the ejection and crash of an F-35B stealth fighter in South Carolina's Williamsburg County ...
During a test flight in early 1942, Schenk found his controls iced up and unresponsive, and chose to abandon the aircraft using the rudimentary ejection seat powered by compressed air. Later ...
Pakistani JF-17 is a rare example of a fighter jet to sport an assortment of Western, Russian, and Chinese components.
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 ...
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 ...
New information about serious and potentially dangerous deficiencies with the emergency ejection system on the U.S. Air Force ...
Pro-Palestine activists have admitted breaking into and damaging the headquarters of a company that makes aircraft ejection seats. Palestine Action claimed Buckinghamshire-based aircraft firm ...
Britain's Royal Air Force has modified the ejection seat harnesses on its Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft following a fatal accident in Spain, the Ministry of Defense said Monday. The RAF ...
But in most cases, ejection-seat technology is the difference between life and death. So, how exactly does this technology work, and what is it like to experience an ejection? Pete: It is a ...
This was obviously a major issue that needed to be dealt with. His solution was to install an ejector seat. Er, well, an ejector seat button. At least, that’s what it’s labeled. (That’s sure ...