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ACES is an acronym for Advanced Concept Ejection Seat. It is used in Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, Rockwell B-1 Lancer, WB-57, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, and Mitsubishi F-2 aircraft. Over 10,000 ACES II seats ...
The ACES II ejection seat is used in most American-built fighters. The A-10 uses connected firing handles that activate both the canopy jettison systems, followed by the seat ejection. The F-15 has the same connected system as the A-10 seat. Both handles accomplish the same task, so pulling either one suffices.
15 or 19 June 1999: F-15D, 79-0013, of the 445 FLTS, 412th TW, USAF, crashed at Nellis AFB after colliding with F-15C 82-0008. Pilot ejected and survived, apparently only one crewmember on board the two seat F-15D.
In 2018, following a series of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (OSD CAPE) studies indicating that a mix of fourth- and fifth-generation fighters would allow the USAF to more affordably recapitalize its fighter fleet, the USAF and Boeing began discussing the F-15X or Advanced F-15, a proposed single-seat variant based on the F-15QA to ...
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing). Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter. The Eagle took its maiden ...
Investigators identified ejection seat failure as a partial cause of an F-16 crash that killed 1st Lt. David Schmitz, 32, in June 2020. In 2018, four members of a B-1 bomber crew earned the ...
1954 - awarded an ejection seat contract. Stanley opened a new 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m 2) plant in Aurora, Colorado. This was expanded to 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2) in the mid-1950s. 1964 - acquired the Gamah Corp. of Santa Monica, California that designed and manufactured flexible o-ring couplings and related aerospace parts and equipment.
The four-minute recording captures the bizarre circumstances for the three unidentified people involved: a North Charleston resident calmly explaining that a pilot just parachuted into his ...