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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.
Section source: Stanley Aviation History Page [1] 1948 - Robert M. Stanley, founder and Navy test pilot founded Stanley Aviation. 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.
In 2022, the T-6 fleet and hundreds of other Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps jets were grounded after inspections revealed a potential defect with one component of the ejection seat's cartridge ...
Site history; Built: 1917: In use: 1917–1927 ... McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station in Dayton, Ohio ... 4500 tons of its materiel and ...
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.