Jo Lancaster escaped from a stricken flying-wing test plane almost 75 years to the day that a Martin Baker seat saved an F-35 ...

Ejection seats are a safety mechanism for pilots who ... Trish Choate reports for the Times Record News and Anthony Robledo reports for USA TODAY.

John Robertson of the 80th Operations Support Squadron was severely injured when the ejection seat of the T-6A Texan ... He teaches news writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's ...

Martin-Baker — which builds the ejection seats used on the T-6 ... Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Frederick News-Post (Md.), Air and Space Forces Magazine, Inside Defense ...

The pilot was rushed from Sheppard AFB to the hospital after the incident occurred yesterday, but sadly died as a result of ...

The instructor pilot may sit in either seat during training, and both have ejectors that can be activated by a handle. When activated, a cartridge explodes and initiates the ejection sequence.

An Air Force instructor pilot at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas passed away due to injuries from an ejection seat that fired on ...

An Air Force instructor pilot out of Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas died early Tuesday morning due to injuries caused by an ejection seat that fired ... in an April 4 news release.

Ejection seats have been credited with saving pilots ... Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com. The hottest stories ripped from ...

Get DFW local news, weather forecasts and entertainment ... both seats have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat. U.S. Air Force/Airman Zoë T.

A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot died from his injuries after his plane’s ejection seat activated while on ... a key educational pipeline that has supplied new combat pilots to the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force instructor pilot was killed when the ejection seat activated while the turboprop aircraft was still on the ground at a Texas military base, the Air Force said Tuesday.