Collins Aerospace

ST Engineering and Collins expand their cooperation.

ST Engineering and Collins Aerospace have signed three multi-year agreements to expand their cooperation in aircraft component support.

One agreement will allow ST Engineering to repair certain electronic circuit boards used in equipment installed on the B787.

Another expands the range of components it can repair, including equipment associated with the B737 MAX.

Now, Martin Baker is not the only company that makes ejection seats.

Collins Aerospace also makes ejection seats, and they have something called the Grasshopper Club, offering plaques, pins, patches, and coins for survivors, including Air Force pilots shot down over Iran this year.

So the 7,800 people, those are only people that have ejected using this brand of ejection seats.

Right, there

Florentina Viscacci, president of Jet Zero's Montreal engineering division, says the engines will be enclosed in specially designed top-mounted nacelles.

Designed by Collins Aerospace, the nacelle installation includes an inlet, fan cowl, and fan duct, plus fairings and engine support structure.

Loads will be carried from the engine support box on top of the Pratt & Whitney 2040 down through the inner fixed structures of the bypass duct to a single lower pylon attached to the BWB, that's the blended wing, the BWB's upper fuselage.

So it's not just taped to the top of the plane or stapled or whatever.

This pilot survived, that is part of the same story.

The ejection seat in an Air Force F-16 is the ACE's II, Advanced Concept Ejection Seat Second Generation, manufactured by Collins Aerospace and used across multiple Air Force platforms including the F-15 Eagle, the A-10 Thunderbolt, the B-1 Lancer, the B-2 Spirit, the F-22 Raptor, and others.

The ACEs-2 is zero-zero capable, zero altitude, zero airspeed.

The seat is designed to function on a stationary aircraft on the ground and to get the pilot out and into a working parachute before hitting the runway.

AC stands for Advanced Concept Ejection Seat, Mark II.

It is manufactured by Collins Aerospace and represents roughly five decades of refinement in the science of getting a human being out of a failing aircraft alive.

The concept of ejecting from an aircraft goes back to World War II.

Early systems were rudimentary, spring-loaded catapults, some designs that involved literally kicking the pilot upward from below the seat.

And it's a Claude and anthropic and this and that.

And it's like, that was just so fishy to me because of course, anthropic is going to create this huge mass hysteria problem that, get the government to come in and try to regulate it for our safety and national security, well, that's going to land them some government contracts into the likes of Collins Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, right? Right into the military industrial complex you go, like Palantir and these sorts of companies.

Where then you have open AI in my mind, just based on these recent updates with GPT-6 Astra, you got GPT images 2.5, you got more usage.

I didn't even talk about the revamped cloud desk, or excuse me, the chat GPT desktop app that they have.

Honeywell is not the first major aerospace company to arrive at this conclusion in the current environment.

RTX, the parent company of Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace, has been navigating its own version of this for several years.

Their publicized supply chain issues affecting the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine led to mandatory inspections, removals, and temporary groundings of aircraft across multiple airline fleets.

Some of the root causes traced back to supplier quality issues, RTX has been pushing toward tighter supplier control as a direct result of that experience.

Yes, spinning blades create false radar returns, but modern phased array radars can see right through them.

The Trump administration itself quietly ordered $438 million in phased array radar from Collins Aerospace, a company that markets wind farm radar mitigation as a core feature.

A- and here's the twist.

Poland now requires defense sensors on every offshore wind farm.