Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited is a British manufacturer of ejection seats and safety-related equipment for aviation based in Denham and Chalgrove. They have supplied ejection seats for 93 air forces 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.
In 2022 that since the first live ejection test in 1945, a total of 7,674 lives have been saved by the company’s ejection seats.
Tony Gaunt from Martin-Baker gave a very interesting and thought provoking talk on the history of ejection seats as well as some of the pitfalls of designing and using the seats
