Starting an A-10 isn’t as simple as turning a key in the ignition and stepping on the gas. If you’re an A-10 pilot, here’s ...

The Cedar Rapids-based company has been producing the ejection seats since 1978. The seats have saved the lives of 703 pilots. (Collins Aerospace) Buy Photo ...

Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a contract from Boeing Defense to provide 144 ACES II® ejection seats for the U.S. Air Force's F-15EX fleet.

The Aces II ejection seat is a third-generation ejection seat with an excellent reliability record. The seat technology has been kept current as the seat first entered service in the 1970s. The Aces ...

One year after the death of an instructor pilot at Sheppard Air Force Base, the United States Air Force Headquarters Air ...

Enter the ejection seat. The tech we know today by that name can trace its roots back to the 1910s, when a parachute maker by the name of Everard Calthrop patented such an idea.

Collins ACES seats are installed in U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolts, F-15 Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, F-22 Raptors, B-1 Lancers, and B-2 Spirit fleets, as well as all F-15s and F-16s worldwide ...

The F-35's unique ejection seat system is designed and produced by Martin-Baker for the U.S. Military. The seat is designated US16E, and it's installed on all variants of the F-35 at a cost ...