To mitigate risk factors associated with ejection, engineers continue to refine ejection seat technology—though risks remain. Latent and unappreciated until the exact moment of need, modern fighter ...

After six Air Force flyers ejected following friendly fire incidents over Kuwait, these former fighter pilots explain what that's like.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — An Air Force instructor ...

An ejection seat is supposed to be a pilot’s last chance to survive. But the hardest part is often not pulling the handle. It is deciding to do it in time. In a fast-moving emergency, pilots are ...

From violent ejection to possible capture, here's how US aircrew train to survive even before they've hit the ground.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A passenger in an F-15D ejected on the ground this week at the 104th Fighter Wing in Massachusetts. (Senior Airman Ivy Thomas/U.S.

RANTOUL — Ejection seats from an Air Force plane that is scheduled to be dismantled on the former Chanute Air Force Base were allegedly stolen. Rantoul police Sgt. Rodney Sullivan said the ejection ...

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