The 70th Anniversary of MB Ejectee #1
30th May 2019
Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the first life saved in a Martin-Baker ejection seat. It was on the 30th May 1949 that a young test pilot named Jo Lancaster sealed his fate as Ejectee #1, successfully ejecting during the test flight of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 in a pre-Mk1 seat. 70 years on, the…
Martin-Baker Delivers 500th F-35 Ejection Seat
1st March 2019
Martin-Baker has now supplied 500 US16E Ejection Seats to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, spread across the three production lines: to Fort Worth, to Leonardo Cameri and to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya. LM UK CEO, AM Peter Ruddock CB CBE (himself a Hunter Mk2H ejectee in 1977), commemorates this significant milestone with…
Martin-Baker Delivers 2000th JPATS Seat
11th December 2018
November 2018 saw the production of the 2000th JPATS (Joint Primary Aircraft Training System) ejection seat for the highly successful Textron T-6 Texan II trainer programme. The first flight of this remarkable aircraft took place in July 1998. Now over 700 aircraft are in service with US armed forces alone, with a further 9 countries…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF FORBES
29th November 2018
To whom it may concern, In the November 26 edition of Forbes online, Loren Thompson, a contributor to Forbes and Chief Operating Officer for the non-profit Lexington Institute, wrote an uninformed OpEd titled Air Force Push for Better Pilot Protection Upsets Competitive Landscape in Ejection Seats. In it he describes many items that should have required data to back…
Martin-Baker Meteor Back in Action
18th June 2018
The Martin-Baker Meteor aircraft is back in action with its first UK test in 8 years at the Company’s test facility in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire. The high altitude ejection test carried out last week was a huge success, pictured here. The high altitude test capabilities at Martin-Baker are truly unique; we are the only ejection seat…