The ejection seat was developed to make escaping a plane as simple as tucking yourself in and pulling a big red handle. Let’s dive in and learn how it came to be. Inventor Anastase Dragomir ...

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 ...

And as a matter of fact, the ejection seat's probably the most complex piece of equipment within a fighter jet. As soon as you pull the handle, at zero seconds, the first thing that's going to ...

Fortunately, ejection seats saved all four crew members’ lives ... collision), or allows the individual crew to manually pull a handle on the right side of their seat to trigger an ejection.