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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Pro-Palestine activists have admitted breaking into and damaging the headquarters of a company that makes aircraft ejection ...

Twenty-one had died in downward ejection seat accidents, including, in 1958, X-2 and X-15 test pilot Ivan Kincheloe. The seat required the pilot to wear metal “spurs” on the heels of his ...

The Air Force also ruled out ejection seat-equipped aircraft for pregnant pilots and aircrew but extended the window for other planes.

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 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 ...

The Pampa III will be fitted with Russian ejection seats Argentine jet trainer manufacturer FAdeA has been banned from installing a British made ejection seat in a new version of the Pampa by the ...

John Nichol's new best-selling book about the history of the ejector seat Available for over a year When his Tornado was shot down in the 1991 Gulf War, the ejection lever saved his life.