Once upon a time, escaping an aircraft was a tricky business. You had to unstrap yourself, fling open a heavy glass canopy, and try to wrench yourself out of a small opening without getting smacked by ...

Some aircraft from the early jet age proved too dangerous for normal ejector seats. The solution? Seats which fired through the cockpit floor. On 1 May 1957, Lockheed test pilot Jack "Suitcase" ...

With a bang and a roar, ejector seats in planes have saved thousands of lives. Paul Marks charts their remarkable development. When squadron leader Douglas Davie of the RAF bailed out of a crippled ...

Once upon a time, bailing out of a plane involved popping open the roof or door, and hopping out with your parachute, hoping that you’d maintained enough altitude to slow down before you hit the ...

Unlike a standard articulated truck that raises its bed and relies on gravity to dump its load, articulated ejector trucks use a hydraulic cylinder to push material out the back of the bed. The center ...