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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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.
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…
I am grateful to God in first, to Martin-Baker, and the maintenance team of the ejection seats, because on October 31, 2007 I was successfully ejected, in which I did not suffer any injury, leaving the accident. It is with great satisfaction that I write this statement 13 years after the event and I am…
On the 19th of June 2004, while flying a heavily loaded NORAD Alert CF-18 from our Main Operating Base in Cold Lake, Alberta to one of our Northern Airfields in Yellowknife, North West Territories, I experienced a failure, without warning, of the anti-skid brake system. A combination of systems failure, heavy aircraft, a short &…
Never got very high off the CAT stroke, settled some working with engine failures. I was unable to sustain airspeed or altitude and ejected around 50 ft above seal level. Ejection sequence worked flawlessly – a very short ride with only one swing in the chute and hit the water. It was at night with…
On June 9th 2004, 13h37, I safely landed on a sandy beach in the South of France after my single engine Mirage 2000N got on fire because it swallowed the refuelling probe during an air-to-air refuelling. The aircraft crashed 4Nm at sea off shore of Gruissan. Never during this short gliding descent from 23000 to…