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(DENVER) The NAHF “Spirit of Flight” Award is presented each year to a group or an organisation for their outstanding achievements or contributions to aviation. It was copyrighted and authorised by the Board of Trustees in 1981. It was renamed in honour of Milton Caniff in 1988. In 2000, acclaimed artist Roy Grinnell created the…

(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…

January 22nd

"I am a proud MB H7 maintainer.

In November 1983 we deployed to NAS Fallon for air to ground training. During one of the take offs we had a aircraft depart the runway due to a nose gear steering issue. The aircraft was loaded with 6 500lb bombs. Upon departing runway to the right the aircraft went into a ditch causing the nose gear to collapse and slam into the floor of the front cockpit. The impact caused the nose gear through the floor and pushed the front ejection seat up about 6-8 inches causing an uncommanded ejection of the rear seat. Thank god the front seat didn’t fire because it was so out of sequence it would have killed the pilot. The RIO, Capt. Cox got a good chute and landed safely.

The RIO had just asked the pilot if we are ejecting and was told no, we’ll ride it out and boom, RIO ejects. All Capt Cox could think of was how he was going to rip into pilot for not giving him a heads up before ejecting especially since he just told him they were riding it out.

Upon RIO landing pilot comes running up to him to make sure he was ok first thing he says is how did you land before me?

Thank You Martin-Baker.

Same Squadron Sept 1986 we had a midair between 2 F-4’s. Capt. Colyer pilot and Capt. Rives RIO ejected safely. Unfortunately the aircrew of the second aircraft didn’t make it.

I have had the honor of maintaining Martin-Baker ejection seats for 7 years and loved every minute of it. Knowing that the aircrew rely on your seat keeping them safe and one less thing for them to worry about makes their job that much easier."

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January 21st

"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 privilege.

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 51 to thank Martin-Baker and all those people for making the seat work that one time!

I had only been out of school about 6 or 7 years and in a 3 year period I had experienced 3 minor compressor stalls…a flameout in bad weather at altitude with a relight about 3000 feet above the Drakensberg mountain range…a flameout after cannon fire on the breakoff low level with a relight…a near midair collision low level with a colleague on a separate navigation exercise over a turning point…a bird ingestion low level in the right intake, jettisoning external stores with a compressor locked stall to recover with low power and a low speed for return to base…the final hour arrived with an engine seizure during a sight check for an air-to-air firing exercise…dead sticking the aircraft onto an emergency airstrip called Toothrock, landing too fast…bursting tyres and pulling the ejection handle at the end of the runway.

I have always been grateful to be able to sit in a cockpit and fly, but that very day I was grateful to stand up in the dust looking with relief at the parachute draped over a farm fence.

..some time later I wrote this poem:

Ejection….you are alive…..you think you’re dead….you are alive…then you Live!!!

With humble thanks"

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