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The Martin-Baker Mk.10 is a British rocket-assisted ejection seat designed and built by Martin-Baker. Introduced in the 1970s, the zero-zero capable Mk.10 has been installed in many combat aircraft types. A lightweight version is known as the Mk.10L.
Gloster Meteor WA638, owned by Martin-Baker and used for ejection seat tests Meteor WL419 is also used for ejection seat tests Martin-Baker Ejection seat MK.GT5 in the Republic RF-84F Thunderflash 1961–1976. Martin-Baker investigated ejection seats from 1934 onwards, several years before Germany and Sweden proposed similar systems in 1938.
Martin-Baker Mk.8 is the designation given to two distinct British ejection seat types designed and built by Martin-Baker.The original use applies to a seat developed for the cancelled BAC TSR-2 strike aircraft project of the 1960s, re-use of the designation applies to a lightweight version of the Martin-Baker Mk.10 seat for the Short Tucano and other similar military training aircraft.
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 also manufactures ...
Lynch demonstrated the ejection seat at the Daily Express Air Pageant in 1948, ejecting from a Meteor. [6] Martin-Baker ejector seats were fitted to prototype and production aircraft from the late 1940s, and the first emergency use of such a seat occurred in 1949 during testing of the jet-powered Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 experimental flying wing.
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Martin-Baker ejection seats (10 P) Pages in category "Ejection seats" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Martin-Baker Mk.9 on display at the Solent Sky aviation museum The Martin-Baker Mk.9 is a British rocket-assisted ejection seat designed and built by Martin-Baker . Introduced in the late-1960s, the zero-zero capable Mk.9 has been installed in several European combat aircraft types and was also used in experimental aircraft.