The change of the single source contract awarded to Collins Aerospace for its ACES 5 seat could potentially open the NGES ...

The US Air Force (USAF) is re-evaluating its procurement strategy for installing replacement ejection seats across multiple ...

F-16s have been supplied to Ukraine and the jet is widely used by air forces across the globe, including those of NATO states ...

In a US Air Force bid to improve their pilot survivability systems, Collins and Martin-Baker go head to head to build the ...

The other objective was to develop and test ejection seats for fighter craft. After jettisoning the windscreen, or canopy, they could then fire the man and his seat out of the airplane.

James Martin discovered that the most effective means of ejection was by an explosive charge that forced the pilot's seat up into the air. Following an intensive period of testing and research his ...

A concept more akin to the modern idea of an ejection seat was later pioneered by Romanian Anastase Dragomir towards the end of the 1920s. He was able to test his idea of a “catapulted cabin ...

Test pilot Col. Alec “Bulldog” Spencer instructs Forbes writer Jim Clash on the use of an ejection seat, Eglin AFB, December 4, 2024. The flight was scheduled for Thursday, December 5 ...

The company worked with Martin-Baker and its fighter jet ejection seat testing programme to create a movement tough enough for the job. During that testing, Bremont built a prototype watch to ...

Ejector seat inventor’s heirs share £47m payout after saving 7,767 pilots and crew - The company’s ejection seats are in most ...

James Martin discovered that the most effective means of ejection was by an explosive charge that forced the pilot's seat up into the air. Following an intensive period of testing and research his ...

In 1942 it moved into ejection seats after his close friend Captain Valentine Baker was killed testing a Martin aircraft. Captain Baker’s death inspired Sir James to begin researching methods ...