Martin-Baker will not protest to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) plan to award a contract to Collins Aerospace to procure its ACES V ejection seat. The USAF ...
A temporary grounding of US Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters due to faulty ejection seat parts has been resolved. Inspections of over 700 cartridges revealed only four suspect parts, which were ...
The Air Force announced Monday that its F-35A Lightning IIs are flying again, after a recall related to the aircraft's ejection seats grounded the fighter jets late last month. Martin-Baker, a U.K.
Adhering strictly to the principle that if it isn’t broke why fix it, Martin-Baker is conducting high-speed ejection seat tests for 21st-century combat aircraft using derivatives of the same Gloster ...
Martin-Baker is perhaps the world’s most prolific ejection seat manufacturer. In the last five years, it has produced more than 4,000 seats for 13 manufacturers of 18 aircraft types flown in 27 ...
October 7, 2022: The U.S. Air Force suffered a rare ejection seat failure in June 2020 in which the seat successfully ejected but the parachute did not deploy and the pilot died on impact. The widow ...