Once upon a time, escaping an aircraft was a tricky business. You had to unstrap yourself, fling open a heavy glass canopy, and try to wrench yourself out of a small opening without getting smacked by ...

Some aircraft from the early jet age proved too dangerous for normal ejector seats. The solution? Seats which fired through the cockpit floor. On 1 May 1957, Lockheed test pilot Jack "Suitcase" ...

With a bang and a roar, ejector seats in planes have saved thousands of lives. Paul Marks charts their remarkable development. When squadron leader Douglas Davie of the RAF bailed out of a crippled ...

Unlike a standard articulated truck that raises its bed and relies on gravity to dump its load, articulated ejector trucks use a hydraulic cylinder to push material out the back of the bed. The center ...

Ejector pins are the “bouncers” of the injection molding world. They let technicians apply a force to eject a part from the mold, and, in some cases, can leave marks. The goal for engineers and ...