The anatomy of a modern Martin-Baker ejection seat. The core principle of an ejector seat is relatively straightforward: to propel the pilot out of the aircraft to a safe distance, where they can ...

John Stapp “The Fastest Man on Earth.” Stapp, his Air Force colleagues and other researchers in the field were experimenting ...

The Air Force also ruled out ejection seat-equipped aircraft for pregnant pilots and aircrew but extended the window for ...

When a pilot pulls his ejection seat’s handle, which is located either ... are already made for the pilot before he even clears the aircraft. Manufacturers have spent decades perfecting all ...

Pro-Palestine activists have admitted breaking into and damaging the headquarters of a company that makes aircraft ejection ...

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 ...

Howard Hasbrook volunteers for a demonstration of a scaled-down version of Lieutenant Colonel John Stapp’s rocket sled set up in the hangar at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...

Instead, the Argentine aircraft maker will turn to a Russian ejection-seat to supply the Pampa IIIs for the Argentine Air Force. Argentina fought a war with the British in the early 1980s over ...

Capt. John Robertson died after the ejection seat of his T-6A Texan II aircraft "activated during ground operations" Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...