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 ...

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 ...