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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...