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

Following an intensive period of testing and research his ejection seat went into production in the late 1940s. The first life saved was that of test pilot John Lancaster, in 1949. Since then over ...

The canopy is blown off first, before the pilot is launched clear by the pyrotechnics. What happens next depends on the situation. If the ejection was at particularly high altitude, the seat falls ...

Investigators identified ejection seat failure as a partial cause of an F-16 crash that killed 1st Lt. David Schmitz, 32, in June 2020. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP In 2018, four members of a B-1 ...

And as a matter of fact, the ejection seat's probably the most complex piece of equipment within a fighter jet. As soon as you pull the handle, at zero seconds, the first thing that's going to ...

Instead, the Argentine aircraft maker will turn to a Russian ejection-seat to supply the Pampa IIIs ... the FAdeA president said the Pampa III would make its first flight in December.