{"id":12496,"date":"2019-04-06T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2019-04-06T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:34:00","slug":"aero-club-of-new-england-to-present-2019-godfrey-l-cabot-award-to-martin-baker-aircraft-company-2","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-2\/%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 Company on Friday,\nJune 7, 2019 at a luncheon at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award will be presented to the company in recognition of\ntheir successful development and manufacture of aircraft ejection seats.\nMartin-Baker ejection seats have saved more than 7,500 pilot\u2019s lives, and by doing\nso have increased pilot safety throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first use of an ejection seat in a practical application\nwas by a British pilot, involved with the Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 flying\nwing experimental aircraft, in 1949. Martin-Baker was a pioneer in expanding\nthe operational envelope of the ejection seat enabling it to be used at low\naltitudes and airspeeds, leading eventually to a \u201czero-zero\u201d capability seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martin-Baker, originally formed in 1934 to continue work on\naircraft development, designed an unconventional, two-seat, low wing monoplane,\nthe MB1. After Baker\u2019s unfortunate death in 1942 during a test flight of the\nMB3 aircraft, pilot safety became Martin\u2019s primary focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 In 1944, the company\nwas approached by the Ministry of Aircraft Production to investigate ejection\nsystems enabling pilots to bail out safely from high speed fighter aircraft.\nMartin-Baker concluded that an explosive powered ejection seat was the best\nsolution. The company        currently supplies\nejection seats for 93 air forces worldwide, and they have been fitted into more     than 200 fixed-wing and rotary type aircraft.                      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cabot Award, named to commemorate Dr. Godfrey L. Cabot\n(now deceased), is presented each year by ACONE to an individual or team who\nhas 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 club\nin the Americas, was organized on January 2, 1902 nearly two full years before\nthe Wright brothers made their landmark flight of December 17, 1903 at Kill\nDevil Hill, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award will be presented at a luncheon, Friday, June 7, 2019 at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. For reservations or additional information, visit the ACONE website at www.acone.org<\/a> or contact Georgia Pappas \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 Company on Friday, June 7, 2019 at a luncheon at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. The award will be presented to the company in recognition of their successful development and manufacture of aircraft ejection seats. Martin-Baker […]<\/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-12496","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\/12496","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=12496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12496\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}