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

#4416

John Peters

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.

Steve Brown, Ejectee #3372

3rd May 1983 was an interesting day. The Harrier Force was deployed in the field for TACEVAL. On our first launch, just as I was nozzling aft, the engine noise stopped, most warning lights came on and when the view out the front changed from blue sky to green field I ejected. It was estimated…

Graham Clarke, Ejectee #2149

It will be the 50th anniversary of my ejection this year, so I thought it would be a good time to record my experiences on the day. It was a sunny day in Cyprus and I was in Akrotiri as part of the 29 Sqn detachment from Wattisham. On the 8th of July 1971, I…

Francisco Visconti Osorio, Ejectee #4381

This was in the Mirage M5-DV aircraft, acronym FAV-5471, in which, coincidentally, I made my first flight in Mirage aircraft, as a pilot-student, holding the rank of Lieutenant, in August 1973, in company of my instructor, the then Tcnel. Rafael Quintero Torres “TORO”. I flew many hours on this plane during my many privileged years…

Jack Stone, Ejectee #2134

I’ve just had my 75th birthday and these days I’m more likely to be thinking of improving my golf score than thinking of love – even on Valentine’s Day – but that wasn’t always the case. Like most young men my Valentine’s Days usually meant thoughts of love – some girl or other I was…

Chris Burwell, Ejectee #3079

I parted company from my Harrier GR3 XW766 following an engine failure at low level in Northern Germany on 4 October 1979. Since I was operating from a field site at the time, requiring a maximum performance take-off from a small strip and a vertical landing back into the site, it was very fortunate that…

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