The Air Force on Tuesday identified a training pilot who was killed by an ejection seat misfire at a Texas base. Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at ...

Three US F-15E fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait in the early hours of Monday (March 2) in an apparent friendly fire incident during Operation ...

At Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound – an SR-71 pilot would be pushing close to the aircraft’s top speed, but the plane would normally have been able to fly at those speeds for more than an hour ...

Martin-Baker is perhaps the world’s most prolific ejection seat manufacturer. In the last five years, it has produced more than 4,000 seats for 13 manufacturers of 18 aircraft types flown in 27 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The crash of an F-35B ...

Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

A trainer spirals into a death spin. The instructor knows the seat is a first-generation model with poor low-altitude performance. He also knows that delaying will kill his student. He pulls the ...