After six Air Force flyers ejected following friendly fire incidents over Kuwait, these former fighter pilots explain what that's like.
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base, the Air Force said Tuesday.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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) — An Air Force instructor ...