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 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 system in question is the ACES 5 ejection seat, made by Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace. The new report details new problems. But the ACES 5 has had problems from the start.

The B-1B uses a lightly customized variant of the Collins Aerospace ACES II ejection seat system, which either automatically fires off the crew (after popping off canopy panels in rapid succession ...

“We’re testing a possible new use of the ejection seat drogue chute,” said Dr. Dan Mountjoy, T-7A Crew Systems Lead Engineer with the directorate’s T-7A Program Office.

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 ...