ejection seat
noun
: an emergency escape seat for propelling an occupant out and away from an airplane
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My first day at Dyess AFB in Abilene, Texas, home to two dozen of the remaining B-1s still active, included a mandatory medical exam followed by SERE immersive parachute and ejection seat training - plus suit, helmet and oxygen-mask fittings.
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Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The competition may expand to include a variety of other military aircraft, marking a significant step in the development of advanced ejection seat technology.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
The company, which for a time was the largest employer in Aurora, made ejection seats for the military and in a few short years nearly doubled its operation to 140,000 square feet, according to History Colorado.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024
It was first conceived in 1957 by Pennsylvania's C. Walton Musser, a wonderfully creative inventor with patents on everything from power steering systems, recoilless rifles and pneumatic life jacket inflators, through to many key ideas underpinning jet aircraft ejection seats.
—New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The competition may expand to include a variety of other military aircraft, marking a significant step in the development of advanced ejection seat technology.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
The company, which for a time was the largest employer in Aurora, made ejection seats for the military and in a few short years nearly doubled its operation to 140,000 square feet, according to History Colorado.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2024
It was first conceived in 1957 by Pennsylvania's C. Walton Musser, a wonderfully creative inventor with patents on everything from power steering systems, recoilless rifles and pneumatic life jacket inflators, through to many key ideas underpinning jet aircraft ejection seats.
—New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for ejection seat
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“Ejection seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ejection%20seat. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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