Baker seat?? Wow, how many would recognise that description? Our American cousins probably more likely know it as a "bang" seat.What about a Baker seat for Dick? He might need no instructions for its use.
Admitting the thread drift, I cannot resist noting that the ejector seat in question is properly named a Martin-Baker, from James Martin and Captain Valentine Baker. I have indeed sat on one, but did not need to use it. I had an old friend who did, and became an even greater part of aviation history than he already was, by being the first man ever to use a Martin-Baker bang-seat in extremis. He was testing an experimental jet flying wing which went unstable, and had to leave. After two bomber tours, a career as a test pilot, crop-dusting, survey flying, he died last August aged 100. I am proud to have known him.
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Link to the Amanda---"Jo" Lancaster flew the Saunders-Roe jet Flying Boat Fighter !
Jo Lancaster - Wikipedia
Link to the Amanda---"Jo" Lancaster flew the Saunders-Roe jet Flying Boat Fighter !
If he wld have flown every year in his 100yr-long-life, he wld hv had 130hrs/yr!!!Admitting the thread drift, I cannot resist noting that the ejector seat in question is properly named a Martin-Baker, from James Martin and Captain Valentine Baker. I have indeed sat on one, but did not need to use it. I had an old friend who did, and became an even greater part of aviation history than he already was, by being the first man ever to use a Martin-Baker bang-seat in extremis. He was testing an experimental jet flying wing which went unstable, and had to leave. After two bomber tours, a career as a test pilot, crop-dusting, survey flying, he died last August aged 100. I am proud to have known him.
Jo Lancaster - Wikipedia
Link to the Amanda---"Jo" Lancaster flew the Saunders-Roe jet Flying Boat Fighter !