The Martin-Baker Aircraft Company: Aircraft Ejection Seats

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

Chapter 23 in Post-Innovation Performance, 1986, pp 240-248 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Soviet Bloc; Aircraft Manufacturer; Development Contract; Dominant Market Position; Production Expertise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07455-6_28

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