“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 ...

The ejection seat was developed to make escaping a plane as simple as tucking yourself in and pulling a big red handle. Let’s dive in and learn how it came to be. Inventor Anastase Dragomir ...

Collins Aerospace will provide 144 ACES II ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15EX fleet. [Courtesy: RTX] Boeing Defense has awarded Collins Aerospace a contract to provide 144 Advanced ...

RTX business Collins Aerospace has secured a contract to install 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES) II ejection seats on the US Air Force's (USAF) F-15EX fleet. The contract has been ...

The ejection seat system in question is the ACES 5 ejection seat, made by Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace. The new ...

The T-7A uses two of the new ACES 5 ejection seats from Collins Aerospace. The RTX subsidiary was awarded a sole source contract from the USAF in 2019 to deliver 3,018 examples of its ACES 5 ...