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.
My name is Alfredo Teixeira Moura and I am currently Colonel Aviator, fighter pilot in the Brazilian Air Force Reserve. My accident occurred when a student of the Pilot Fighter course in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil in 1995. I was doing aerial shooting training and, when making the second pass for the shot,…
On November 19, 1967, on a combat air patrol south and west of Haiphong Vietnam I encountered hostile fire from North Vietnamese air forces. My F4 was hit and disabled forcing my ejection from the aircraft. After a successful ejection I was captured by enemy forces and spent 5 plus years as a POW in…
Post-1965 Pakistan-India war I was posted to No 17 Squadron at Pakistan Air Force base Mauripur in Karachi. The squadron was equipped with Canadair Sabre 6 (a variant of the North American Aviation’s F-86). Early one morning in December of 1966, I took off for a ‘target towing’ mission to give live-fire practice to the…
“In 1978 I was a WSO flying F-4s with the 25th Fighter Squadron at Kadena AFB, Okinawa, Japan. Returning from a routine training mission, my AC, Lt Chip Utterback and I were leading a two ship formation landing. We were 10 miles on final at 2500’ agl, 250 knots, when we experienced a material failure…