Anyone want an ejector seat?

[MonkeyBusiness]

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26999/lot/64/

A MARTIN-BAKER TYPE 7A EJECTOR SEAT FROM A MCDONNELL-DOUGLAS F4 PHANTOM II

[Tony1963]

That’s horrible. “Highly polished”. Yuck.

[2gins]

I'm just trying to imagine what Mrs 2gins would say when it gets delivered. It's almost worth £4k to see the look on her face

[48k]

2gins said:

It's almost worth £4k to see the look on her face

...as she disappears over the terrace

[Starfighter]

That looks horrible all polished up.

[CanAm]

I was at the Aircraft branch of the Munich Deutsches Museum at Schleissheim a few years ago and in the shop they had some very overpriced old Airfix kits...... and an F104G ejector seat for about £2500. Must have been one of the few that hadn't been used.

[Piginapoke]

What are you supposed to do with it- sit on it with the helmet on?

[loskie]

every morning when I see BBC news I think Naga could do with one. Annoying woman.

[QuartzDad]

I quite fancy the 10-foot tall apparently-not-a-sidewinder missile...

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26999/lot/63/?cat...

[hammo19]

loskie said:

every morning when I see BBC news I think Naga could do with one. Annoying woman.

Followed swiftly behind by the Sidewinder.....

[Narcisus]

I turned down I really nice Lightning seat in about 1991 because it meant a 2 hour drive on a Sunday morning and I couldn't be arsed to get up..... If only we had a time machine .... It was 300 quid !

[anonymous-user]

Bargain , they’re £250k + new. (and armed).

[hman]

my air cadets had one - favourite trick was to tell the new recruits it was armed once they had strapped them in and then pull the handle

[PH_77]

CanAm said:

I was at the Aircraft branch of the Munich Deutsches Museum at Schleissheim a few years ago and in the shop they had some very overpriced old Airfix kits...... and an F104G ejector seat for about £2500. Must have been one of the few that hadn't been used.

Wow - ‘The Germans lost 292 of 916 aircraft and 116 pilots from 1961 to 1989’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Sta...

[anonymous-user]

PH_77 said:

CanAm said:

I was at the Aircraft branch of the Munich Deutsches Museum at Schleissheim a few years ago and in the shop they had some very overpriced old Airfix kits...... and an F104G ejector seat for about £2500. Must have been one of the few that hadn't been used.

Wow - ‘The Germans lost 292 of 916 aircraft and 116 pilots from 1961 to 1989’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Sta...

Those loses are horrendous , more like war time losses.
On a lighter note, I remember building an Airfix model of one in the early 70s

[Elroy Blue]

Don't look up RAF Meteor kisses then

[ecsrobin]

Got to have a look at this in person but I can’t say I’ve ever seen the helmet, did it ever enter service?

[eharding]

ecsrobin said:

Got to have a look at this in person but I can’t say I’ve ever seen the helmet, did it ever enter service?

I vaguely remember it from some early Tornado footage - listed as a MK5 High Speed Anti Blast (HSAB) helmet, tested in the Tornado but never fully adopted.

As such, slightly dubious provenance to combine it with a Type 7a seat from a Phantom, as doubtful the two were ever used in the same type of aircraft (unless the MRCA prototypes used the 7a?)

Edited by eharding on Sunday 11th July 17:56

[Dr Jekyll]

Elroy Blue said:

Don't look up RAF Meteor losses then

Of course most of them didn't have ejection seats.

[anonymous-user]

Dr Jekyll said:

Elroy Blue said:

Don't look up RAF Meteor losses then

Of course most of them didn't have ejection seats.

Somewhat ironically, Martin-Baker still have one that is used for development work.