The AAIB found the seat’s safety pin was not fully installed and the previously disconnected harness chest strap caught on ...

Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured Monday "when the ejection seat of the T-6A Texan II aircraft he was in ...

The pilot at the Sheppard Air Force Base was injured when the ejection seat of the trainer aircraft, the T-6A Texan II, was activated at about 2 p.m. on Monday, public affairs officials said.

After an ejection, no part of the seat can be reused or salvaged, Martin-Baker says. One seat can cost anywhere from $120,000 to $240,000, according to the Martin-Baker website.

The U.S. Air Force identified the instructor pilot who died after his ejection seat activated while on the ground at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls on Monday. The USAF said Capt. John ...

Boeing Defense has awarded Collins Aerospace a contract to provide 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seats (ACES) for U.S. Air Force F-15EX fighters. The contract, which will be performed in Colorado ...

The new T-7A Red Hawk ejection system passes high-speed test at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. After coming under scrutiny for serious ejection system deficiencies identified during earlier ...

The seat ejection process comprises several components: a seat catapult, restraints, an explosive cartridge, pitot tubes, and an onboard central processing unit. Some of these components are ...

An Anthropomorphic Test Device sits on an ejection seat waiting to be tested on the Horizontal Impulse Accelerator, part of the Biodynamics Laboratory, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio ...

All four crew members sit in an Advanced Concept Ejection Seat, or ACES II seat, with an escape hatch above. In 2018, a B-1B’s seats failed to fire when the crew tried to eject during an engine ...

Ann Arbor Ejection from Michigan fighter jet detailed in preliminary crash report Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 10:56 a.m.

The new T-7A Red Hawk ejection system passes high-speed test at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. After coming under scrutiny for serious ejection system deficiencies identified during earlier ...