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Definition of Ejector seat
1. Noun. A pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
Definition of Ejector seat
1. Noun. A seat in a military aircraft which allows the pilot or other crew members to quickly escape in the case of emergency using an explosive charge or rockets. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ejector Seat
Literary usage of Ejector seat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Submarine Island: A Peter Kent Story by John Gunn (2006)
"The automatic-ejector-seat mechanism would then open his parachute for him ...
Paul, in the observer's seat of this early Venom, had had no ejector-seat. ..."
2. Vostok Station: Point of Impactby Plowright, Kerry by Plowright, Kerry (2005)
"In the reflection on the plexiglass canopy he could just make out the Major
leaning back in the ejector seat, his hands behind ..."
3. Description and Rules for the Management of the U.S. Magazine Rifle and by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1898)
"... ejector seat, L ; the cocking, piece groove, M; the sear nose slot, N; the
side plate tenon mortise, O; the guide lip, P, riveted to the receiver in ..."
4. Description and Rules for the Management of the U.S. Magazine Rifle Model of by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1917)
"Other parts are the boli handle seat, J; the locking lug recess, K, with its
shoulder and cam; the ejector seat, L; the cocking piece groove, M; ..."
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