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The Martin-Baker Mk.5 is a British ejection seat designed and built by Martin-Baker. Introduced in the late 1950s, the Mk.5 has been installed in combat and training aircraft worldwide. Introduced in the late 1950s, the Mk.5 has been installed in combat and training aircraft worldwide.
Martin-Baker seats have been fitted into over 200 fixed-wing and rotary types with the most recent being the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II programme. Martin-Baker claimed in 2022 that since the first live ejection test in 1945, [3] a total of 7,674 lives have been saved by the company's ejection seats. [4]
Martin-Baker Aircraft began the MB 5 as the second Martin-Baker MB 3 prototype, designed to Air Ministry Specification F.18/39 for an agile, sturdy Royal Air Force fighter, able to fly faster than 400 mph. After the first MB 3 crashed in 1942, killing Val Baker, the second prototype was delayed.
Martin-Baker Mk.11. Pilatus PC-7 Turbo Trainer; Pilatus PC-9; PZL-130TC Orlik; Martin-Baker Mk.12. Hawker Siddeley Harrier; Martin-Baker Mk.14 NACES (SJU-17) This ejection seat is used by the US Navy and is often designated Martin-Baker NACES (Naval Aircrew Ejection Seat) SJU-17 with a suffix letter for the different variants. [17] Grumman F ...
Martin-Baker Mk.10 This page was last edited on 21 May 2024, at 13:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The Mk.7 seat was developed from the earlier Mk.5 design by the addition of a rocket pack to enable zero-zero capability. [1] A large upgrade program to retrofit Mk.7 seats to all Lockheed F-104 Starfighter aircraft in German Air Force service was initiated by Johannes Steinhoff in late 1967, this measure improved the type's safety record and several other European nations operating the ...
Martin-Baker MB 5 This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 13:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system where gear changes require the driver to manually select the gears by operating a gear stick and clutch (which is usually ...