Obviously there are a great many differences between attack helicopters and fighter jets, but one of the distinct advantages jet pilots have over their helicopter-flying counterparts is the ...

RTX business Collins Aerospace has secured a contract to install 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES) II ejection seats on the US Air Force's (USAF) F-15EX fleet. The contract has been awarded by ...

This ejection seat was invented by James Martin, who was born in Crossgar, Co. Down, in 1893. In 1934 he founded the Martin-Baker aircraft manufacturing company with his friend Captain Valentine ...

Boeing Defense has awarded Collins Aerospace a contract to provide 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seats (ACES) for U.S. Air Force F-15EX fighters. The contract, which will be performed in Colorado ...

Because they have, you know, ejection seats. The technology dates back to the 1910s, when it first popped as an idea into the head of a parachute maker named Everard Calthrop, followed shortly ...

Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace recently announced the contract with Boeing to build 144 Advanced Concept Ejection Seat (ACES II) for the Air Force’s F-15EX jet fleet. “The F-15EX is the most ...

Collins' Advanced Concept Ejection Seat, known as ACES, has saved over 700 lives since 1978. There are currently 6,000 ACES ...

When a plane goes down, an ejection seat keeps pilots from going down with it. Ejecting from an ejection seat is not something a pilot wants to do, but it is something they have to do in case of ...

According to reports, the latest issue comes in the form of “a potentially life-threatening blunder as [the F-35’s] ejection seat could snap a slender pilot’s neck when attempting to save ...

Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract from Boeing Defense to provide 144 ACES II ® ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force's F ...