Martin Baker Tie Club.

[Lightning Mate]

I am a member of this unique club and am wondering who else out there is also.

I am sure a lot of good stories could be shared amongst us. Members please check in.

I remind everyone of an excerpt from Martin Baker:

"Life membership of the Martin-Baker Tie Club is confined solely to persons who have ejected from an aircraft in an emergency using a Martin-Baker designed ejection seat, and thereby saved their life."

LM

[treadigraph]

I am sure a lot of good stories could be shared amongst us

And I'm sure that the rest of us would dearly love to hear them! :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

If people do, then you sure will. :)

[Lightning Mate]

This hangs in my hallway - details on the inscription have been removed for obvious reasons:

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/IMG_1338.jpg

[Kerosene Kraut]

Check this out:
EJECTION STORIES (http://www.ejectorseats.co.uk/Stories.html)

[newt]

I've got one of those too LM. Mine is nicely mounted with the firing cartridges for use as a pen holder! Very inventive those nice chaps in the seat bay!!

[Lightning Mate]

Hello Newt.

Yes I know you have. Chunky has 2 (within five weeks of each other) and Willie has 3 doesn't he?

LM ;)

[jimgriff]

I am the owner/compiler/eejit who is responsible for the ejection site where the stories above appear ejection seat website. (http://www.ejectorseats.co.uk) and have on a number of occasions asked for contributions to the stories page. So come on guys (and gals)- get in touch!

Guess you ejected from Jaguar LM???- so do tell the tale?:8
:ok:

[Lightning Mate]

jimgriff,

Yes it was a Jaguar. I suspect that you might have contacted me before and that I forgot all about it. We'll have to sort that.

LM

[newt]

jimgriff

Why should we give you the stories?

[BOAC]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/boacphotos/DSCN1371.jpg

Look what fell off the back of a *******:)

Must have that garage sale sometime......

[Lightning Mate]

"Look what fell off the back of a *******"

Lightning?

[wiggy]

Well my "yellow and black" is still at the bottom of the North Sea, though thanks to a trawler I've got a few bits of the aircraft..........

[jimgriff]

Oh come on Newt! Why keep the stories to yourself? Some of them make for a very interesting read!
Pretty Please????

BOAC- That seat (Mk9b) (early Jag) has certainly seen better days- Garage sale- No Please dont - donate it to a good cause for display- Please (again!!)

[Gainesy]

Come on then Lightning Mate, your thread, set the ball rolling?:)

[Lightning Mate]

Well,

You see it was like this:

bugger, Mrs. LM is calling for help in the kitchen.

[Lightning Mate]

Hey wiggi,

Wot was your jet then, and when?

jimgriff,

Methinks your seat ID may be wrong. I don't think that BOAC was a Jaguar mate. He was a LIGHTNING MATE.

Now then, you have to be really s**t hot to have flown both......ask Newt.

Also ask Wholigan. Him only fly low performance kit. Where are you Wholi, the lurking Mod? How shelf stacking going?

LM :confused:

[jimgriff]

Methinks your seat ID may be wrong. I don't think that BOAC was a Jaguar mate. He was a LIGHTNING MATE.

The seat in the pic is deffo a Type 9 as used in early jags- without seeing the seat pan - there is a possiblilty that it could be an early Harrier seat (which also used a Type 9 (Mk2) seat but different rocket pack and other mods. - later seats had the headbox /main chute container mod on the jag.
The lightning had a Type 4 Mk2BSB(C) seat in it which is totally different in configeration and design.:8

I have both types in my personal collection.:zzz:

[PFR]

Come on guys - give us the full sp - I know some of us are anoraks:8 but at least speaking for myself I'm certified as such:}

[wiggy]

Twas this one ( Sorry, looks like I've really stuffed up the link but at least it works :bored::):

http://http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:Q-l9PL-GI0YJ:www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/955FD030-3C3E-4D4D-988F-7C770F954E2F/0/maas80_01_phantom_fgr2_xv414_09dec80.pdf+uk+royal+air+force+ phantom+accidents+1980&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9hZU-zasd1E1p7zNOkvfmhBHNMZ0S44j_fBG5hw-TyNtOO6G-r7LyNiGZX-mPUL_z9nL29avB9L5Y6WFVDD70ms7P0F-7YflQ3Ao96GGuvzkUtpW47sxtd83ffRngpcsO8M5G&sig=AFQjCNG3EFhAT4iLwFB9lcI57kblsXgCSQ (http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:Q-l9PL-GI0YJ:www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/955FD030-3C3E-4D4D-988F-7C770F954E2F/0/maas80_01_phantom_fgr2_xv414_09dec80.pdf+uk+royal+air+force+ phantom+accidents+1980&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi9hZU-zasd1E1p7zNOkvfmhBHNMZ0S44j_fBG5hw-TyNtOO6G-r7LyNiGZX-mPUL_z9nL29avB9L5Y6WFVDD70ms7P0F-7YflQ3Ao96GGuvzkUtpW47sxtd83ffRngpcsO8M5G&sig=AFQjCNG3EFhAT4iLwFB9lcI57kblsXgCSQ)

[GeeRam]

About 10 years ago I found myself being 'chauffered' in a Virgin 747 to LAX being driven by an ex-11 Sqn Lightning Martin B tie wearer :)

[Lightning Mate]

Well guys,

wiggy has kindly posted a link to his story. I have now been able to identify him and his navigator. I am thus reluctant to follow suit, but I'm still thinking about it.

LM

[david parry]

Heres mine for what they are worth;) The Navy Net: Rum Ration Forums Royal Navy Branches The Fleet Air Arm ejection seat stories (http://www.navy-net.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/t=13156.html)

[wiggy]

Yeah, I knew it wasn't rocket science to make the link (pun intended) and did consider the "Comsec" side of things before posting the link but WTF, I decided to live dangerously for once in my life :} :}

[Gainesy]

If you tell the story in your own words without any dates then its unlikely that anyone (well not many) outside the RAF FJ community will know who you are unless you want them too. Using the MASS makes it easy to get the crews' names though why anyone would want to, outside of organising a reunion or something, I don't know.

[russdev]

Howzit,
I am a new member to this forum but an old member of the "tie club"
I banged out on 5th February 1976, and am member number something in the 2500 range

Here is a great link done by a wonderfull guy of all the SAAF guys having used the Martin Baker seat

South_Africa (http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/South_Africa.htm)

(hopefully he wont mind me posting same here)

cheers
mike

[Lightning Mate]

What did you jump out of then?

[D120A]

M-B seats saved four lives that day in two different types of aircraft... :ok:

[Lightning Mate]

What day was that?

[D120A]

Thursday 5th February 1976. Two out of a Jaguar T2 and two more where it was late summer.

[Lightning Mate]

That T2 would have been XX137 from 226 OCU.

[D120A]

Mike,

Sarah Sharman's biography of Sir James Martin lists all ejections up until 26 Jan 96, number 6502. It shows your ejection number to be 4039 and that of your colleague, who followed you out, 4040.

[Bravo73]

Out of interest, do any of you members of the 'MB Tie Club' also own the MB watch?

MBI & MBII | Chronometers - Bremont (http://www.bremont.com/chronometers/range/mb/)

http://www.bremont.com/assets/watches/mb1.png

The MBI is only available to those individuals who have ejected using an MB ejection seat and can be identified quickly by its red aluminium barrel.

[Lightning Mate]

Personally no - I use a Rolex.

The seat handle in my hallway is worth far more than an MB watch.

[cuefaye]

The seat handle in my hallway is worth far more than an MB watch.


To you maybe. Me, I'd take the watch

[Warmtoast]

So what does the Martin Baker tie look like?

[newt]

To show you means we would have to shoot you:E:E:E:E:E

[D120A]

Warmtoast, little red inverted triangles, set on a background of a large pool of fright... :E

[Carry0nLuggage]

I've just noticed the detail on the short end of the second hand. :D

[Bravo73]

Personally no - I use a Rolex.

You are allowed more than one watch... ;)

[newt]

But he can't afford more than one watch!!:ugh::ugh:

[BOAC]

Out of interest, do any of you members of the 'MB Tie Club' also own the MB watch? - I wouldn't waste my money on that pile of junk - 15 minutes slow and the date is wrong too.:8

[innuendo]

My former back seat crew mate earned the right to join the club twice having left a couple of CF-100s during his almost 3000 hours on the aircraft.
Not sure how many have had a repeat performance.
Neither events were while we were flying together I might add.