A Taiwanese Air Force F-16V fighter jet crashed into the sea during a routine training mission off the northeastern coast of ...

Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

Taiwan's air force on Tuesday said it suspected a pilot had ejected from an F-16V fighter jet at 7:29 p.m. local time during a routine training mission in the island's eastern Hualien County on the ...

Early bombers relied on gravity to release their weapons, but modern fighter jets travel too fast for that approach to work ...

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A Navy jet that crashed within striking distance of homes in February climbed to about 8,000 feet in the air with no one on board after its pilots ejected, Team 10 has learned.

As time has gone on, innovations in fighter jet technology have made “bubble cockpits” steadily more useful to pilots—and ...