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Ejection Tie Club

Here at Martin-Baker, we run an exclusive club that unifies all pilots whose lives we’ve helped save: life membership of the Ejection Tie Club is confined solely to those who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their life.

To search our collection of Ejectee testimonials please enter information in the below search bar. If you have an Ejection story of your own that you’d like to share with us to be shown on this page, please forward to information@martin-baker.co.uk.

Tie Club Memorabilia

Exclusive MB Bremont Watch

#4083

LCDR Anthony L. Cook

The first pilot to be accepted into the Club was an RAF serviceman who ejected over what was then Rhodesia in January 1957. Since then, the Club has over 6,000 registered members.

The primary objective of the Club is to provide a distinctive tie to be worn with civilian clothing which provides a visible sign of the members' common bond. Every Club member is given a certificate, membership card, patch, tie, pin or a brooch for the women. All Tie Club memorabilia depicts a red triangle warning sign, the recognised international danger symbol for an ejection seat.

The Ejection Tie Club was founded by Sir James Martin and is now run by Andrew Martin, the grandson of Sir James.

Ejection Stories

No matter the decade, aircraft or air force, each and every one of the Club’s members have an incredible and heartwarming story to tell - we’re lucky enough to host a collection below.

Peter Ruddock CB CBE FRAeS, Ejectee #2775

As a young fighter pilot in training at RAF Brawdy in South Wales I was tasked to fly a Hunter on an air combat training sortie as part of a four-ship formation with another aircraft as the ‘bounce.’  It was Friday the 13th of May 1977 and we tried several times to fly the mission,…

Haynes L Kendall Jr., Ejectee #6082

I was a flight instructor at Naval Air Station Kingsville Texas in training squadron 21 and on the morning of November 19, 1968 I was assigned a new student Lieutenant JG Barber and we were on a familiarization flight and we had a complete hydraulic failure. We declared an emergency and returned to the field…

Raul Alexander Ballesteros, Ejectee #5696

Good morning, I’m chief máster seargent Raúl Alexander Ballesteros Colombian Air Force ejectee #5696. On September 30, 2010 i ejected from Kfir during reconnaissance misión the aircraft suffer engine loss, we perform the established procedures for the ejection. Thanks Martin-Baker for saving my life and that of my fellow pilot.

COL John Black, Ejectee #690

On 10 Aug 1964, my radar pilot (LT. James Martin) and I (CPT John Black) flew a Supersonic F4 Phantom II fighter over the Mojave Desert for a night “scramble” alert exercise.  About 20 minutes into the flight, the plane suffered a malfunction and we went into an inverted spin.  We both scrambled to find…

Ted Newton, Ejectee #25

We received this lovely message from the grateful daughter of an ejectee, Ted Newton Ejectee #25, and thought it was well worth a share! The message was sent after meeting us on our stand at Farnborough air show earlier this year. “Thank you for your time today and for the opportunity to see my dad…

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