One year after the death of an instructor pilot at Sheppard Air Force Base, the United States Air Force Headquarters Air ...

An Air Force report found that Capt. John Robertson's death on May 13, 2024 likely came from not being properly strapped into ...

Captain Robertson’s death was the result of an ejection seat being activated during ground operations in one of the T-6a ...

The Air Force has released its report on an aircraft accident at Sheppard Air Force Base that resulted in the death of an ...

News. Here’s how the ejection seat worked when an F-35 jet crash-landed in Fort Worth One ejection seat can cost more than $120,000, according to the manufacturer, Martin-Baker.

One-tenth of a second from pulling the ejection handle or lever, the seat catapult initiates, ... More modern ejection seats, like the ACES 5, developed by Collins Aerospace, ...

The F-35's unique ejection seat system is designed and produced by Martin-Baker for the U.S. Military. The seat is designated US16E, and it's installed on all variants of the F-35 at a cost ...

August 15, 2022: In July the U.S. Air Force grounded most of its F-35 fighters so inspections could be carried out to find which of them had a defective component in their ejection seat. In April ...

When the plane suffered an emergency, three of the ejection seats fired correctly but one did not, ... When a crewmember pulls the ejection handle, the hatches above the crew are blown clear, ...

“When asked if he had pulled the ejection seat handles, he stated that he could not specifically remember but thinks that he would have pulled them,” the report states.

When asked whether he had pulled the ejection seat handles, he replied he "could not specifically remember, but thinks that he would have." Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress ...

In a training flight, an instructor can sit in the front or back seat; both seats have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat. U.S. Air Force/Airman ...