Boeing announced yesterday that it has chosen a Martin-Baker ejection seat for its Joint Strike Fighter design, making the company a virtual lock to produce seats for the more than 3,000 JSFs expected to be sold worldwide. JSF competitor Lockheed Martin also picked a derivative of the Martin-Baker Mk16 seat for its JSF bid last week. The seats will integrated into the winning JSF design beginning with next year's engineering and manufacturing development phase. A version of the seat is...
