To mitigate risk factors associated with ejection, engineers continue to refine ejection seat technology—though risks remain. Latent and unappreciated until the exact moment of need, modern fighter ...

Senior Airman Blake Anguiano, left, and Airman 1st Class Jonathan Lamb, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron aircrew egress systems journeymen, install an ejection seat in an F-15E Strike Eagle at ...

The direction of ejection also matters. In normal flight, positive G-forces press the pilot into the seat, causing blood to move toward the lower body. Negative G occurs when the aircraft accelerates ...

A widespread issue with ejection seats that impacted hundreds of aircraft across the U.S. military last week was first discovered on an F-35A Lightning II back in April, but the Air Force didn't ...

A pilot ejects from a plane in this demonstration photo provided by Collins Aerospace. The Cedar Rapids-based company has been producing the ejection seats since 1978. The seats have saved the lives ...

The U.S. Air Force's F-35A fleet has resumed normal flight operations, following inspections of hundreds of ejection seat cartridges to look for potentially faulty ones. (Capt. Kip Sumner/U.S. Air ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — An Air Force instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the jet was still on the ground at a Texas military base, the Air Force said Tuesday. The ...

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 ...

An Air Force instructor pilot with the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas died overnight from injuries sustained when their T-6A Texan II ejection seat activated during ground ...