If the ejection was at particularly high altitude, the seat falls for some time before deploying the full parachute to reach a safer altitude where the air is thicker. Alternatively, if the ...

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

An ejection seat works by blowing away the canopy of ... A rocket is then fired under the pilot’s seat. Finally, the parachute is then deployed. All this happens in about a second.

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 ...

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 ...

But in most cases, ejection-seat technology is the difference between ... determine whether the pilot is at a low altitude and the parachute needs to be deployed immediately, or whether they ...

A US Air Force instructor has died after he was ejected from his plane while on the ground, the service said. Captain John Robertson was killed after the seat of his T-6A Texan II activated at ...

When a plane goes down, an ejection seat keeps pilots from going down with it. Ejecting from an ejection seat is not something a pilot wants to do, but it is something they have to do in case of ...