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The MK5 ejection seat was introduced in 1957 to suit US Navy requirements. It incorporated design elements from the MK4 but was strengthened to withstand higher g-forces. Over 1,645 aircrew lives have been saved using the MK5. The seat initiates ejection through a firing handle and then deploys a drogue parachute followed by the main parachute to safely separate the pilot. It has been installed on nearly 20 US aircraft types.

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Mk5EjectionSeat Martin Baker

The MK5 ejection seat was introduced in 1957 to suit US Navy requirements. It incorporated design elements from the MK4 but was strengthened to withstand higher g-forces. Over 1,645 aircrew lives have been saved using the MK5. The seat initiates ejection through a firing handle and then deploys a drogue parachute followed by the main parachute to safely separate the pilot. It has been installed on nearly 20 US aircraft types.

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MK5 EJECTION SEAT

INTRODUCED INTO 1,645 AIRCREW LIVES


SERVICE IN 1957 SAVED USING A MK5
EJECTION SEAT

MK5 EJECTION SEAT

To suit the special requirements of the United States Navy, the Mk5
seat was introduced in 1957 and its production paralleled to that of
the Mk4. In general, the Mk5 seats conformed to the same basic
pattern of the Mk4 and included the standard 80 feet per second
gun, 1¼ second time delay with g switch and barostatic control,
duplex drogue system plus all the other features necessary for
their use at all speeds and heights. To meet specific American
crash requirements, however, the seat structure and harness were
strengthened to withstand deceleration loads of 40g, instead of the
25g British specification, resulting in a slight increase in weight.

In addition, the seats were provided with special canopy breaker


peaks on the headbox to provide for the eventuality of having to
eject through the canopy, standard practice on the A.5 seat
installed in the Grumman 9F-8T Cougar. On the majority of the
other Mk5 seats, the American system of jettisoning the canopy
was linked up with the face blind firing handle. The low-level
capabilities of the Mk5 seat were successfully demonstrated in
August 1957, when Flying O icer Sidney Hughes ejected from a
Grumman Cougar at the U.S. Naval Air Test Centre, Patuxent River,
before a group of high-ranking U.S. Navy O icers. Subsequently,
the decision was made to standardise the Martin-Baker Mk5 seats
for all United States Navy jet fighters and trainers, and many
fuselages were sent to the Company’s factory at Denham for trial
installations.

North American Sabre and Republic Thunderflash aircra of the


Norwegian Air Force were the first of many N.A.T.O. aircra to be
flown into Chalgrove Airfield where the installation of Martin-Baker
Mk5 seats was made, replacing the original American ejection
seats fitted in these aircra , because the Norwegian Air Force
preferred Martin-Baker seats. Altogether the Mk5 seat has been
fitted to nearly twenty types of American aircra , including such
advanced aircra as the McDonnell Phantom, L.T.V. Crusader, and
Grumman Intruder.
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MK5 EJECTION SEAT

INTRODUCED INTO 1,645 AIRCREW LIVES


SERVICE IN 1957 SAVED USING A MK5
EJECTION SEAT

MK5 EJECTION SEAT

Operating Ceiling: 50000+ (15,250m)

Minimum height/Speed: Zero/90 KIAS

Crew boarding mass range: 70.4 to 101.7kg

Crew size range: 5th to 95th percentile


Maximum Speed for ejection: 600+ KIAS

Parachute type: Irvin I 24

Parachute deployment: Drogue assisted

Drogue parachute type: Duplex drogues 22in. and 5

Drogue deployment: Drogue gun. Cartridge generated gas.


Initiated by 0.5 sec clockwork time-delay, tripped during
ejection sequence

Harness type: Combined

Ejection seat operation type: Ejection gun

Ejection gun: 80 /sec One primary cartridge, two secondary


cartridges, 72 in. stroke

Ejection initiation: Face screen or seat pan firing

Barostatic time-release unit: Yes, tripped during ejection


sequence, g-restrictor, time-release unit for man/seat

Manual override handle: Yes

Guillotine: Yes

Seat adjustment: Up/down, manual operation

Arm restraints: No

Leg restraints: Yes, two garters

Oxygen supply: Bottled oxygen

Personal survival pack: Yes with lifera

Aircrew services: Personal equipment connector (PEC) provides


connections for, main oxygen, emergency oxygen, air ventilated
suit, anti-g suit and mic/tel

Canopy jettison: Yes, aircra variant dependent

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MK5 EJECTION SEAT

INTRODUCED INTO 1,645 AIRCREW LIVES


SERVICE IN 1957 SAVED USING A MK5
EJECTION SEAT

MK5 EJECTION SEAT

The pilot pulls the face screen seat firing handle

Canopy jettison initiated

Ejection gun fires, seat moves up guide rails and the secondary
cartridges fire
Emergency oxygen tripped

Aircrew services disconnect

Leg restraints operate

As seat rises, static line initiates time-delay which fires drogue


gun a er 0.5 seconds

As seat rises, static line initiates time-release unit


22 in. dia then 5 dia drogues stabilise and slow seat

ABOVE 10000FT

Barostat prevents operation of time-release mechanism

HIGH SPEED

g-restrictor prevents operation of time-release mechanism

BELOW 10000FT, (LOW SPEED)

A er initiation of time-release unit, the plunger releases scissor


shackle to transfer pull of drogue to li ing lines of parachute,
releasing it from seat.

Release face blind

Harness and leg lines released from seat

Drogues deploy main parachute, pilot separates from the seat

Normal descent

Manual separation system available if necessary. Operation of


manual separation handle fires a cartridge that operates a
guillotine, severing the parachute attachment line, linkages
function releasing parachute harness, negative-g strap, PEC and
leg restraint cords.

Freeing parachute from seat.

Pilot can then use rip cord to operate parachute


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