ejection seatnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪˈdʒekt.ʃən ˌsiːt/us/ɪˈdʒekt.ʃən ˌsiːt/UK also ejector seat, uk/ɪˈdʒek.təˌsiːt/us/-tɚ-/a seat that can throw out the person flying an aircraft if they suddenly have to leave it because they are in danger
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Air travel: parts of aeroplanes
- -nosed
- autopilot
- barf bag
- canopy
- fixed-wing
- flap
- flight recorder
- fuselage
- joystick
- nose
- pod
- propeller
- retrorocket
- rudder
- safety belt
- shell
- shock absorber
- skid
- starboard
- wing
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Examples from literature
- A little over a month before, it had seemed to Joe that ejection seats were the most useless of all possible pieces of equipment to have in a space ship.
- I even caught Mike polishing the ejection seats, because there wasn't anything else to make sure of!
- The ejection seats were assuredly the most unlikely of all devices to be useful today.
- This crumpling cabin fell fast, but Joe stuffed Mike in an ejection seat and shot him out.
- With an ejection seat, a jet pilot can be shot out of a plane traveling over Mach one, and live to tell about it.