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Various ejection seats. In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency. . In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an explosive charge or rocket motor, carrying the pilot with
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.
On December 8, 1964 at Bunker Hill AFB, a B-58 navigator, Manuel "Rocky" Cervantes, ejected in his escape capsule after his aircraft was blown off an icy runway by another jet in front of him, the plane catching fire in the resulting crash, burning and damaging five nuclear warheads. the other two crew members on the plane safely abandoned the ...
The Martin-Baker Mk.1 is a British ejection seat designed and built by Martin-Baker. Developed in the late 1940s it was the first in the line of production Martin-Baker seats for military aircraft. Ground and air testing of earlier designs resulted in the first successful test ejection of a company employee in July 1946.
Martin-Baker Mk.8 is the designation given to two distinct British ejection seat types designed and built by Martin-Baker.The original use applies to a seat developed for the cancelled BAC TSR-2 strike aircraft project of the 1960s, re-use of the designation applies to a lightweight version of the Martin-Baker Mk.10 seat for the Short Tucano and other similar military training aircraft.
The K-36 Ejection seat provides emergency escape for a crew member in a wide range of speeds and altitudes of aircraft flight, from zero altitude, zero speed upwards, and can be used in conjunction with protective equipment, such as pressure suits and anti-g garments. The seat consists of the ejection rocket firing mechanism, gear box, headrest ...
The first use of an ejection seat in a practical application by a British pilot involved the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 flying wing experimental aircraft in May 1949. Martin-Baker was a pioneer in expanding the operational envelope of the ejection seat to enable it to be used at low altitudes and airspeeds, leading eventually to development of ...
Original military designation for the NA-212, not used F-107A Military designation for nine prototype NA-212s ordered, only three built. FJ-5 Proposal by North American in July 1955 for a navalised F-107 powered by a General Electric J79 turbojet; a proposal was made to build a prototype with the wing of a FJ-4 Fury. Not taken up. [20]