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What is ejection seat?The ejection seat is a safety mechanism primarily used in aircraft to save a pilot or a passenger by propelling the seat out of the disabled aircraft.An explosive charge or rocket is used to propel the seat to a safe distance and a parachute takes care of the rest of the journey down to the ground.Everald Calthorp who earlier had invented parachutes devised an ejection seat that used compressed air.Romanian inventor Ananstase Dragomir proposed the modern layout for ejection seats in the late 1920s. The parachuted cell design was tested on 25 August 1929 in Paris and got the design patented.The technique used before ejection seat was to simply jump out of the aircraft which in most cases was difficult as it would cause injury and was dangerous.As with most of the things, World War II led to the development and perfection of parachutes.Heinkel and SAAB developed the ejection seat independently. These early models were compressed air powered seats. Heinkel HE 280, the prototype jet fighter,