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 ...

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.

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 ...