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.

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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.

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…

Clinton “Catfoot” Steele, Ejectee #5703

One of the most awesome things in life is living long enough to tell the tale, it’s a fact that not everyone has this privelage. I am grateful for two things..one..for thanking the Sergeant and his appy at the parachute section for packing the seat right..and two…now I have the chance at the age of…

Captain David “Mad Dog” B Gray, Ejectee #6145

I am 84 years young and will be celebrating my 57th wedding anniversary with my lovely wife. I was blessed with two children and wonderful grandchildren. I had a successful 10 year career in the Army and 30 years as a commercial pilot. I have your Martin-Baker ejection seat to thank for it! In January…

Andy Moir, Ejectee #2834

In the early 1970’s I read an RAF Flight Safety Report about an F4 Phantom accident in which the aircraft departed the runway at high speed. As a result, the cockpit floor distorted trapping the pilot’s foot under the rudder pedal and initiating the ejection seat – fortunately the seat didn’t fire. Consequently, the RAF…

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