Now, the most advanced ejection seats boast survival ratings above 90 percent. This is how we got there. Cockpits had no room for storage, so the first military escape aids went to the balloon ...

[Photo: USAF Tech. Sgt. Erik Cardenas] A potential defect in cartridge actuated devices (CAD) used to initiate ejection seats has prompted the grounding of hundreds of military aircraft ...

For some reason, the man’s emergency ejection seat deployed, sending him through the canopy and away from the jet. After descending back to the ground via parachute, he was quickly taken to a ...

San Diego Air & Space Museum/Flickr Ejection seats have been a running gag in tons of movies. But they’ve also saved literally thousands of lives. First successfully used on this day in 1942 ...

Two major upgrades were under evaluation: a redesigned canopy jettison system and an improved ejection seat sequencer. The redesigned canopy is intended to shatter in a more controlled pattern ...

The pilot of the Russian-made fighter jet that crashed earlier this month during the Thunder Over Michigan air show in Belleville was trying to land the plane while the backseater acknowledged to ...