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The Buran-class orbiters were planned to be fitted with K-36RB (K-36M-11F35) seats, but as the program was canceled, the seats were never used. No real life land vehicle has ever been fitted with an ejection seat, though it is a common trope in fiction.
The Martin-Baker Mk.1 is a British ejection seat designed and built by Martin-Baker. Developed in the late 1940s it was the first in the line of production Martin-Baker seats for military aircraft. Ground and air testing of earlier designs resulted in the first successful test ejection of a company employee in July 1946.
Sir James Martin (11 September 1893 – 5 January 1981) was a British engineer who together with Captain Valentine Baker founded the Martin-Baker aircraft company which is now a leading producer of aircraft ejection seats.
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 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]
1954 - awarded an ejection seat contract. Stanley opened a new 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m 2) plant in Aurora, Colorado. This was expanded to 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2) in the mid-1950s. 1964 - acquired the Gamah Corp. of Santa Monica, California that designed and manufactured flexible o-ring couplings and related aerospace parts and equipment.
Oregon wide receiver Traeshon Holden was ejected in the second quarter of the No. 3 Ducks’ 32-31 win over No. 2 Ohio State for spitting at Buckeyes cornerback Davison Igbinosun.
A Chase XG-20 glider, which was later converted to the XC-123A prototype. The XC-123 prototype. The C-123 Provider was designed originally as an assault glider aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Chase Aircraft as the XCG-20 (Chase designation MS-8 Avitruc) [2] Two powered variants of the XCG-20 were developed during the early 1950s, as the XC-123 and XC-123A.