Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd. is a British manufacturer of ejection seats and safety-related equipment for aviation. The company's origins were originally as an aircraft manufacturer before becoming a pioneer in the field of ejection seats. The company's headquarters are in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, England with other sites in France, Italy and the United States.
Martin-Baker supplies ejection seats for 93 air forces worldwide. Martin-Baker seats have been fitted into over 200 fixed-wing and rotary types with the most recent being the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II programme.
Martin-Baker claimed in 2014 that since the first live ejection test in 1946, a total of 7,450 lives have been saved by the company's ejection seats.
Martin-Baker also manufactures crashworthy seats designed for helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. As of 2012, over 20,000 crashworthy seats have been delivered. The Martin-Baker company continues as a family-run business, run by the two sons of the late Sir James Martin.
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In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency. In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an explosive charge or rocket motor, carrying the pilot with it. The concept of an ejectable escape crew capsule has also been tried. Once clear of the aircraft, the ejection seat deploys a parachute. Ejection seats are common on certain types of military aircraft.
The modern layout for an ejection seat was first proposed by Romanian inventor Anastase Dragomir in the late 1920s. The design, featuring a parachuted cell (a dischargeable chair from an aircraft or other vehicle), was successfully tested on 25 August 1929 at the Paris-Orly Airport near Paris and in October 1929 at Băneasa, near Bucharest. Dragomir patented his "catapult-able cockpit" at the French Patent Office.
Blount and one of his navigators managed to eject, but their difficulties were far from over. The aircraft was upside-down at just 5,000 feet when he ejected, and the MartinBaker ejector seats were relatively primitive.
Martin-Baker specialises in ejection seats, which are found in military planes across the West, including in the cockpit of the IAF’s T-6 training fleet ... Martin-Baker manufactures ejection seat components used in F-35s.
Asked how it would respond if Martin-Baker, which manufactures the ejector seats in Mirages, approached it to offer Hsieh a lifetime membership in its Ejection Tie Club, the air force said that it had not received any information from the company.
Fighter. John Nichol joined the RAF after his O-levels...Share ... Their combined worth? Half a million pounds! Nowadays I wear a bespoke Bremont MB1 watch – it can only be worn by men and women who have used a Martin-Baker ejection seat in an emergency ... .
... here last year, what’s helpful to know about the ejection seat?. I don’t know any details about the actual accident, but there are some unique features about the MartinBaker ejection seat in the F-35.
In a training flight an instructor can sit in the front or back seat; both have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat ... Ejection seats have been credited ...
In a training flight an instructor can sit in the front or back seat; both have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat ... Ejection seats have been credited ...
In a training flight, an instructor can sit in the front or back seat; both seats have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat ... TROUBLE WITH EJECTION SEATS.
In a training flight an instructor can sit in the front or back seat; both have lightweight Martin-Baker ejection seats that are activated by a handle on the seat ... Ejection seats have been credited ...
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Aiken Standard
15 Aug 2024
Aiken Standard
15 Aug 2024