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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.
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 ...
16 January 1990: F-15D, 80-0059, of the 21st TFW, crashed into Mount Susitna, Alaska in reduced visibility.Pilot was killed, no others aboard the 2-seat aircraft. [6]24 January 1990: F-15C, 78-0534, of the 18th TFW, crashed in the South China Sea near Clark AFB, Philippines, after colliding with F-15C, 78-0520, which landed safely.
The F-15EX improvements included the AESA radar, IRST, and EPAWSS from the existing F-15 upgrade programs while combining the benefits of the F-15QA such as the revised structure with a service life of 20,000 hours, new cockpit and flight controls, and the proposed AMBER (Advanced Missile and Bomb Ejector Rack) system to enable the carriage of ...
A Tyndall Air Force Base McDonnell-Douglas F-15 Eagle crashes in the Gulf of Mexico about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Tyndall, killing the student pilot who was identified as 2nd Lt. Sean P. Murphy, 23, of Warsaw, Indiana. At the time of the crash the pilot was engaged in a mock dogfight with his instructor who was flying a second F-15.
A US Air Force pilot instructor has died from injuries sustained when their ejection seat activated in a training plane that was still on the ground.. The accidental ejection took place at 1.55pm ...
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 ...
"An Air Force instructor pilot with the 80th Flying Training Wing died early this morning from injuries sustained when their T-6A Texan II ejection seat activated during ground operations here May 13.