Martin-Baker, the company that invented the modern aircraft ejection seat in the 1940s, operates a program called the Tie Club.
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Martin-Baker, the company that invented the modern aircraft ejection seat in the 1940s, operates a program called the Tie Club. It provides a unique tie and pin to any pilot who bails out of an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat.
The Tie Club has more than 6,000 members.
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Martin-Baker did not start out making ejection seats; they started out making airplanes. That changed on September 12, 1942, when their prototype MB 3 fighter crashed, killing its pilot, company co-founder Captain Valentine Baker.
The tragedy turned Baker’s business partner and friend James Martin toward a search for a way to allow pilots to escape crashing planes that led to the modern ejection seat.
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@jalefkowit While it makes sense that there are so many members, since we've been flying planes for over a hundred years, it's still somehow weird to think that more than 6000 airplanes crashed with the pilot ejecting... that's a lot of airplane crashes.
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@tsturm @jalefkowit I wonder what percentage were given out during WW2.
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@jalefkowit I wonder if they can make a special scarf or something if a woman successfully ejects.
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"I received a letter in the mail inviting me to England to officially receive a Martin Baker pewter pin specially designed for the first woman ejectee, to be presented by Diana, Princess of Wales. The Navy denied my request to travel to England for the presentation, stating that military members couldn’t be perceived as endorsing a company or product."
MEET THE FIRST WOMAN MARTIN-BAKER EJECTEE
Written by Linda Maloney During my last year of high school, I took the Navy entrance examination and decided to enlist as an air traffic controller. My first duty station—Ford Island, Hawaii. Eight months into my tour, my supervisor, Senior Chief Dickinson, encouraged me to apply for an officer program, and I was acce
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@neffo @spacegeck I love that her family bought her the MBI watch. That is a very exclusive watch!