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(WASHINGTON) Martin-Baker Aircraft Co., Ltd., received a prestigious award from one of the leading defence manufacturers in the world during a recent suppliers conference. Lockheed Martin presented Martin-Baker with the Supplier Award for Outstanding Warfighter Support to the Joint Strike Fighter programme as an audience of some 200 fellow suppliers watched. Kevin Hutchins, Senior Programme…

Nearly 30 Martin-Baker ejections seats will fly in four airframes conducting a joint-combined formation Thursday along the Hudson River at approximately 9:30 a.m. The Martin-Baker seats will be flown by the Royal Air Force Red Arrows in nine Hawk aircraft (twin seats), the US Navy’s Blue Angels in six F-18 jets, and two US…

DAYTON, OHIO, 08/12/2019 – The Board of Trustees of the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) is pleased to announce that its coveted 2019 Spirit of Flight Award will be presented to Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited (MBA) during the 57th Annual Enshrinement Dinner & Ceremony to be held in Denver, Colorado at Wings Over The…

Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the first life saved in a Martin-Baker ejection seat. It was on the 30th May 1949 that a young test pilot named Jo Lancaster sealed his fate as Ejectee #1, successfully ejecting during the test flight of an Armstrong Whitworth AW.52 in a pre-Mk1 seat. 70 years on, the…

Martin-Baker has now supplied 500 US16E Ejection Seats to Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft, spread across the three production lines: to Fort Worth, to Leonardo Cameri and to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagoya. LM UK CEO, AM Peter Ruddock CB CBE (himself a Hunter Mk2H ejectee in 1977), commemorates this significant milestone with…

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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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

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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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