Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on the incredible engineering that goes into aircraft ejection seats and ...

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 ...

The ACES II ejection seat ensured that two US airmen shot down over Iran could make it safely to the ground—though this was only the first step in the rescue effort. A US Air Force F-15E was shot down ...

The passenger was reportedly a non-pilot member of the US Air National Guard who accidentally engaged the ejection sequence of the two-seat F-15 variant while the jet was taxiing. A passenger believed ...

In the world of military aviation, where decisions are measured in seconds and the limits of the human body are tested to their extreme, the ejection seat is not just a means of escaping death, but a ...