Valerie Schmitz was used to her husband, David, training late at night as an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. But she didn't understand why, around midnight on July ...

Hundreds of Air Force and Navy planes are being grounded due to a faulty part in their ejection seats, a major safety concern if a pilot needs to eject from the aircraft suddenly. The issues first ...

Senior Airman Blake Anguiano, left, and Airman 1st Class Jonathan Lamb, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron aircrew egress systems journeymen, install an ejection seat in an F-15E Strike Eagle at ...

U.S. Air Force and South Korean air force F-35A Lightning II aircraft soar in a tight formation over Korea, July 12, 2022. (Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier/Air Force) The Air Force’s F-35A Lightning II ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teledyne Electronic Safety Products (Teledyne ESP), an aerospace and defense electronics company based in Chatsworth, California, ...

The Navy has grounded a number of aircraft after finding faulty parts in their ejection seats. The Navy said the defect did not affect all the aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory. The ...

The US Air Force says it has grounded its F-35 fleet due to a faulty part in its ejection seat The Navy, as well as the Air Force's Education Training Command, also grounded a number of planes for the ...

October 7, 2022: The U.S. Air Force suffered a rare ejection seat failure in June 2020 in which the seat successfully ejected but the parachute did not deploy and the pilot died on impact. The widow ...

(Tribune News Service) — An Air Force major could be seen rocketing into the air after a state-of-the-art military jet smashed into a Fort Worth runway earlier this month. In a matter of seconds, a ...

New York City, NY: Aug 30, 2019 – Published via (Wired Release) – Global Aircraft Ejection Seats Market Research Report describes the basic characteristics of the industry and market statistics. The ...

An Argentinian defense institute says it has demonstrated a potential way to evade a UK export ban on parts for Martin-Baker ejection seats on the South American country’s grounded fleet of Dassault ...