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Martin-Baker has completed the first production configuration US16E Ejection Seat for their F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft for the partner nations. The US16E is the only ejection Seat in the world that has demonstrated compliance to the entire range of accommodation, physiological and ejection performance requirements for the JSF programme. The Royal…

Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited

September 22nd

"It has been quite a year, to say the least, for everyone but perhaps it has been more memorable for me than for many – 43 years memorable. It has also been a time for me to consider that but for a very special ‘seat’ I may not have been here to enjoy those happy years.

You see, way back on a wintry day in Nov 77 I was taking off in my Phantom F-4 – the RAF’s then-latest fighter aircraft. I was accelerating fast through 100 kts when the aircraft started to veer off to starboard. Despite my attempts to correct the slew I was struggling with control when it suddenly snapped even more sharply to starboard out of control.

It was all happening so quick that almost in the same instant I aborted take-off at 120kts, the nosewheel hit the grass and my left rear view mirror seemed to explode in a ball of flame. Equally swiftly I realised that I had just seen my navigator eject from the rear cockpit.

The aircraft I ejected from ‘lived’ to fly another day. My Nav and I also both flew again after short periods of hospital treatment and recuperation and I’ve always been grateful to know that my Martin-Baker ejection seat would work as expected.

Looking back, I may not have needed to eject. But then again there are probably many aircrew who opted not to eject and did not survive to tell their story; I’m glad I’m not one of them!"

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Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited

September 21st

Amazing footage of a Martin-Baker NACES Ejection Seat test out of the MB Meteor test aircraft.

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Martin-Baker NACES Ejection Seat Test out of the MB Meteor Aircraft

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A NACES ejection test out of the Martin-Baker Meteor test aircraft at Chalgrove Airfield in Oxfordsh...

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"...Looking back, I may not have needed to eject. But then again there are probably many aircrew who opted not to eject and did not survive to tell their story; I’m glad I’m not one of them!"

Steve Gyles, Ejectee #2833

https://martin-baker.com/2020/09/18/steve-gyles/

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Amazing footage of a Martin-Baker NACES Ejection Seat test out of the MB Meteor test aircraft.

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