A widespread issue with ejection seats that impacted hundreds of aircraft across the U.S. military last week was first discovered on an F-35A Lightning II back in April, but the Air Force didn't ...

This story is part of the portfolio that won the 2023 Society for Professional Journalists Dateline Award for beat reporting in a newsletter or trade publication. An Air Force investigation of a fatal ...

A temporary grounding of US Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters due to faulty ejection seat parts has been resolved. Inspections of over 700 cartridges revealed only four suspect parts, which were ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — 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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force's F-35A fleet has resumed normal flight operations, following inspections of hundreds of ejection seat cartridges to look for potentially faulty ones. (Capt. Kip Sumner/U.S. Air ...

During the Vietnam War, the Navy and Air Force had a problem: a lot of their planes were being shot down behind enemy territory. Although the two armed services had perfected pilot recovery to a "fine ...

Mercedes CEO and team principal Toto Wolff explained that his position in Formula 1 is an "ejection seat". Wolff first took ...