Wiktionary
n. A seat in an aircraft which can be ejected from the cockpit and thus save the pilots life when a crash is imminent.
WordNet
n. a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute [syn: ejector seat, capsule]
Wikipedia
In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency. In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an explosive charge or rocket motor, carrying the pilot with it. The concept of an ejectable escape crew capsule has also been tried. Once clear of the aircraft, the ejection seat deploys a parachute. Ejection seats are common on certain types of military aircraft.
Usage examples of "ejection seat".
This trainer is here primarily to give you practice in using your downward ejection seat, true, but I want you guys to get more out of it.
He ran through his prelaunch routine automatically, consciously tensing and untensing his muscles, giving his ejection seat harness one last tug to make sure it was secure.
Batman sat back in his ejection seat, shaking his helmeted head sadly.
Then Kell faced forward and yanked the handle for his ejection seat.
At the other end were mounted the fuel pods and some of the thrust nozzles from Phanan's ejection seat.
You have to crawl up that boarding ladder into that ejection seat again and again.
He knew it was a killing shot the moment he saw it, and just before it nestled in to the hot target source of his engine exhaust, Chan jerked down on the ejection seat handle.
He could just see the top of her helmet, partially masked by the top of her ejection seat, if he looked straight ahead.
Reith looked south, to the black line of forest, where his ejection seat still hung in a tree, or so he hoped.
I don't know if the ejection seat fired when the plane hit the water or whether the plane broke up on impact and tossed me out.
The abort handle was the equivalent of the ejection seat cinch ring in an airplane.
For that reason, I have disabled the ejection seat of my Hellbringer.
Patrick just sat down without meeting Brad's eyes and strapped into his ejection seat again.
He sat upright in his ejection seat, seemingly oblivious to all the new air defense warnings popping up on their threat display.
In the personal effects compartment of his ejection seat was his map case and in that map case were several letters he had intended to mail-including the alimony check to his ex-wife which was already a week overdue.