The ACES II ejection seat has helped save more than 650 lives since it was first introduced in 1978 and has a spinal injury rate of less than one percent.

The latest addition to the UTC Aerospace Systems family of Advanced Concept Ejection Seats is ACES 5®. ACES 5® incorporates significant safety and cost saving upgrades compared to the legacy ...

But UTC Aerospace Systems, manufacturer of the bomber's ACES II ejection seat, wants to be clear: The seat itself is not the problem. Whether you're talking about a fighter jet or a bomber, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX (RTX) (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract from Boeing Defense to provide 144 ACES II ® ejection ...

The Air Force primarily uses the Collins Aerospace-made ACES II ejection seat in its legacy F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-15 Eagle and Strike Eagle, F-22 Raptor, A-10 Thunderbolt II, ...

The Aces II ejection seat is a third-generation ejection seat with an excellent reliability record. The seat technology has been kept current as the seat first entered service in the 1970s. The Aces ...

The ejection seat inside a Thunderbird that crashed on Thursday was made in Colorado Springs. The seats are manufactured at a company called UTC Aerospace Systems, and are named “Aces II ...

BFGoodrich Aerospace, Charlotte, N.C., reports it has completed separate contract negotiations with the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin in multi-year buys of its ACES II ejection seat totaling ...

PARIS, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has conducted several major reviews on the upgraded version of its ACES II ejection ...

RTX’s Collins Aerospace selected by Boeing to provide ACES II ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15EX fleet. Published 6:00 am Tuesday, February 25, 2025. By RTX.

October 7, 2022: The U.S. Air Force suffered a rare ejection seat failure in June 2020 in which the seat successfully ejected but the parachute did not deploy and the pilot died on impact. The widow ...