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The Martin-Baker Aircraft Company: Aircraft Ejection Seats

In: Post-Innovation Performance

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  • Luke Georghiou
  • J. Stanley Metcalfe
  • Michael Gibbons
  • Tim Ray
  • Janet Evans

Abstract

Martin-Baker (MB) won the Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement in 1966 in recognition of a continuous stream of innovations related to the development of aircraft ejection-seats. Subsequent progress in ejection-seat technology enabled the company to win further awards in 1967, 1968 and 1969. The central theme of development at MB appears to be a continuous process of technology building on technology. Commercial success is then achieved by embodying accumulated knowledge and production expertise in the design of high value-added products. MB’s wartime experience of pyrotechnic-powered aircraft accessories provided a valuable building block in its postwar work on ejection seats. In the face of competition from up to twenty-eight producers MB was able to keep sufficiently far ahead to carve out a dominant market position. Outside the Soviet Bloc, MB now has nearly three-quarters of the world market for ejection seats, and only two competitors.

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  • Luke Georghiou & J. Stanley Metcalfe & Michael Gibbons & Tim Ray & Janet Evans, 1986. "The Martin-Baker Aircraft Company: Aircraft Ejection Seats," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Post-Innovation Performance, chapter 23, pages 240-248, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-07455-6_28
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_28
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