During the trials, a SeaGuardian carried the SDS pod and, using a pneumatic ejection system, dropped eight AN/SSQ-53 and two AN/SSQ-62 sonobuoys. The ejection system is developed by Italy’s AREA ...

Because they have, you know, ejection seats. The technology dates back to the 1910s, when it first popped as an idea into the head of a parachute maker named Everard Calthrop, followed shortly ...

New episodes air about weekly and feature expert guests who help explain a variety of military aviation-themed topics, such as how ejection seats work, the theories involved in hypersonic flight, ...

This ejection seat was invented by James Martin, who was born in Crossgar, Co. Down, in 1893. In 1934 he founded the Martin-Baker aircraft manufacturing company with his friend Captain Valentine ...