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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Air Force’s entire B-1 bomber fleet was ordered to stand down Thursday because of an issue with ejection seat components, the Air Force Global Strike Command said. The announcement came more ...

The Air Force is temporarily grounding nearly 300 trainer aircraft over concerns that their ejection seats may not fire correctly when needed, Air Force Times has learned. The service has stopped ...

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 ...

New York, NY, Sept 06, 2019 (WiredRelease): Market.us adds a new market research report on “Global Aircraft Ejection Seat Market By Type (by Seat Type , Single , Twin , by Components , Seat Actuator , ...

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 ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- Recently, a dedicated team of four active duty U.S. Air Force Egress System Technicians spent two weeks at Letterkenny Munitions Center removing explosive assets from production ...

The Air Force has grounded its fleet of B-1B Lancers after an ejection seat reportedly malfunctioned on a crippled bomber last month, forcing the pilots to try to land the plane with a blown emergency ...