“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 U.S. Air Force recently successfully tested new components of the Boeing T-7A Red Hawk’s ejection seat system, as the program progresses to address issues that have slowed the aircraft’s ...

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 ...

But his main claim to fame was as the fearless test subject for their signature invention: the ejection seat. The Art of Sausage Making Stephen Hawking Congratulates the LIGO Team | Smithsonian ...

[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 ...

Read more: 17 Best Fighter Jets In The World Today Giving the Ka-52 Alligator, as well as its predecessor the Ka-50, ejection seats is a simple concept. You might think at first that the chopper ...