You might think at first that the chopper ejects the seats to the side ... route with its attack helicopter. When the pilot or co-pilot initiate the ejection system, explosive bolts holding ...

The case of the V-Bombers highlighted just how much ejector seats had changed military aviation. Pilots had grown to expect a high-tech escape system to evacuate their aircraft in a crisis.

The aircraft got a Lockheed C-2 upward ejection seat, an oil pressure warning light, and a “butt kicker” system that throws an ejecting pilot out of the seat after the C-2 clears the aircraft.

LAST DECEMBER, WHEN AN airman on a mission to Afghanistan initiated the ejection ... the seat back measures ambient air pressure to determine the altitude. A central processing system—either ...

They own MotoArt, a company based in California that turns old aircraft parts into high-end ... 747 jet engine cowlings for beds, F-4 ejection seats for, well, ejection seats.

Instead, the Argentine aircraft maker will turn to a Russian ejection-seat to supply the Pampa IIIs ... British-designed system would not be used in any of the trainer or light tactical aircraft ...

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 ...

Britain's Royal Air Force has modified the ejection seat harnesses on its Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft following a fatal accident in Spain, the Ministry of Defense said Monday. The RAF ...

As a tactical fighter aircraft, the F-5N accommodates a pilot only in a pressurized, heated and air conditioned cockpit and rocket-powered ejection seat while the F-5F is a two-seat combat ...