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The Ejector Seat

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  • #2
    arubex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭arubex


    The Martin-Baker rocket-sled test track is at Langford Lodge, former airfield a few miles from Belfast International.

    The company's King Air is a frequent visitor.


  • #3
    b757
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭b757


    It didn't save Goose!


  • #4
    Growler!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Growler!!!


    Saved a well known flight instructor in Cork :D


  • #5
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    I follow Martin Baker on LinkedIn, they regularly post stories from ejectees about their ejections, and every ejectee gets a number. Their seats have saved 7472 lives. Great bit of kit.


  • #6
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,005 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    marketty wrote: »
    I follow Martin Baker on LinkedIn, they regularly post stories from ejectees about their ejections, and every ejectee gets a number. Their seats have saved 7472 lives. Great bit of kit.
    They get lifetime membership in " The Martin Baker Club"
    I read their website a couple of months ago. All the stories from the ejectee's. I think 2-3 guys are actually double members!!


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  • #7
    Razor44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 658 ✭✭✭Razor44


    Tenger wrote: »
    They get lifetime membership in " The Martin Baker Club"
    I read their website a couple of months ago. All the stories from the ejectee's. I think 2-3 guys are actually double members!!

    And a tie Tenger! Don't for get the tie! I strayed on there a few mths ago,pretty interesting


  • #8
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    A neighbour of mine got his membership, though his instructor landed it.

    http://www.martin-baker.com/_pdfs/escape_magazine.pdf

    pg 4


  • #9
    Alaba320
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Alaba320


    Growler!!! wrote: »
    Saved a well known flight instructor in Cork :D

    Who? Was it TB?


  • #10
    pepe the prawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭pepe the prawn


    Alaba320 wrote: »
    Who? Was it TB?

    GH I would think


  • #11
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    Alaba320 wrote: »
    Who? Was it TB?

    http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=55539


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  • #12
    Growler!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Growler!!!


    Alaba320 wrote: »
    Who? Was it TB?

    If it was TB he's telling you porkies:D

    Pepe is correct, if you ask nicely he'll tell you about it. Or at least the bits he remembers I think it was Flameout, load bang, cold wind and pressure on his harness.


  • #13
    Alaba320
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Alaba320


    Growler!!! wrote: »
    If it was TB he's telling you porkies:D

    Pepe is correct, if you ask nicely he'll tell you about it. Or at least the bits he remembers I think it was Flameout, load bang, cold wind and pressure on his harness.

    Ah I thought it would be between them two.


  • #14
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I had a job interview once at their factory in Denham. They have a sign in reception with a running total of the number of lives their seats have saved. They are incredibly proud of what they do.

    Difficult place to get in to as well, people don't often leave.


  • #15
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    PUNCHING OUT: THE STORY OF EJECTOR SEATS

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  • #16
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots
    Concerns about increased risk of injury to F-35 pilots during low-speed ejections have prompted the US military services to temporarily restrict pilots who weigh less than 136 pounds from flying the aircraft, Defense News has learned.

    During August tests of the ejection seat, built by Martin-Baker, testers discovered an increased risk of neck injury when a lightweight pilot is flying at slower speeds. Until the problem is fixed, the services decided to restrict pilots weighing under 136 pounds from operating the plane, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, F-35 integration office director, told Defense News in a Tuesday interview.


  • #17
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,061 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    tricky D wrote: »
    A neighbour of mine got his membership, though his instructor landed it.

    http://www.martin-baker.com/_pdfs/escape_magazine.pdf

    pg 4
    What a story, cant believe I never heard that before...


  • #18
    triggermortis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭triggermortis


    Slightly OT but I remember years ago, when I was in the Air Cadets in UK, we got a cockpit section of a Venom. It was parked up on a trailer and a mate and I were messing in it and he pulled one of the handles on the seat I was sat on. Some mechanical timer whirred and we both jumped out each side in total panic. Nothing else happened as the seat had been deactivated, but it was one time in my life I was genuinely afraid for my life, and everyone else thought this was hilarious. Went on to join the RAF as a technician, but never got to work on anything with bang seats on apart from the old trainer aircraft in basic training ( Canberra, Lightning, Hunter and Gnat)


  • #19
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    Thargor wrote: »
    What a story, cant believe I never heard that before...
    When we were on the Boards A&A Forum tour of Baldonnel in August. I happened to ask to one of flight engineers had anyone from the Air Corps, ever joined the "Martin Baker Club" and without hesitation he told me this very story.


  • #20
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    Trigger Mortis' whirring sound was probably the hood mechanism on the older seats. When the pilot pulled the hood down over his face, the firing sequence started and several mechanical devices operated to pull the pilots' legs back from the pedals, blow off the canopy, start the main ejection gun firing sequence and prepare the parachute drogue for it's deployment. All of this happened in under a second.Most of these mechanical devices used clockwork or rods and gears to actuate and the seats, up to about the 80s, were entirely mechanical, with no computers and very little electronics.


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