{"id":12291,"date":"2019-03-16T01:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2019-03-16T01:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:35:21","slug":"aero-club-of-new-england-to-present-2019-godfrey-l-cabot-award-to-martin-baker-aircraft-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/massachusetts\/aero-club-of-new-england-to-present-2019-godfrey-l-cabot-award-to-martin-baker-aircraft-company\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Aero Club of New England to Present 2019 Godfrey L. Cabot Award to Martin-Baker Aircraft Company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Aero Club of New England (ACONE) will present the\nprestigious Godfrey L. Cabot Award to Martin-Baker Aircraft on Friday, June 7,\n2019 at a luncheon at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cabot Award will be presented to the Martin-Baker\nAircraft Company in recognition of their successful development and manufacture\nof aircraft ejection seats. Martin-Baker ejection seats have saved more than\n7,500 pilot\u2019s lives, and by doing so have increased pilot safety throughout the\nworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first use of an ejection seat in a practical\napplication was by a British pilot, involved with the Armstrong Whitworth\nA.W.52 flying wing experimental aircraft, in 1949. Martin-Baker was a pioneer\nin expanding the operational envelope of the ejection seat enabling it to be\nused at low altitudes and airspeeds, leading eventually to a \u201czero-zero\u201d\ncapability seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin-Baker, originally formed in 1934 to continue work\non aircraft development, designed an unconventional, two seat, low wing\nmonoplane, the MB1. After Baker\u2019s unfortunate death in 1942 during a test\nflight of the MB3 aircraft, pilot safety became Martin\u2019s primary focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1944, the company was approached by the Ministry of\nAircraft Production to investigate ejection systems enabling pilots to bail out\nsafely from high speed fighter aircraft. Martin-Baker concluded that an\nexplosive powered ejection seat was the best solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company currently supplies\nejection seats for 93 air forces  worldwide,\nand                they have been               fitted into more than 200 fixed wing\nand rotary type aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cabot Award, named to commemorate Dr. Godfrey L.\nCabot (now deceased), is presented each year by ACONE to an individual or team\nwho has made unique and unparalleled contributions to encourage and advance\naviation and space flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aero Club of New England (ACONE), the oldest aero\nclub in the Americas, was organized on January 2, 1902 nearly two full years\nbefore the Wright brothers made their landmark flight of December 17, 1903 at\nKill Devil Hill, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award will be presented at a luncheon, Friday, June\n7, 2019 at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. For reservations or additional\ninformation, visit the ACONE website at www.acone.org or contact Georgia Pappas\n\u2014 CabotAward@acone.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Aero Club of New England (ACONE) will present the prestigious Godfrey L. Cabot Award to Martin-Baker Aircraft on Friday, June 7, 2019 at a luncheon at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. The Cabot Award will be presented to the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company in recognition of their successful development and manufacture of aircraft ejection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}