A resin Martin-Baker Mk.14 ejection seat in 1:32 scale, intended for the cabin of the F/A-18 carrier combat aircraft and the T-45 trainer.
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The Martin-Baker Mk.14 is an ejection seat the US Navy introduced under the designation Navy Aircrew Common Ejection Seat. The intention was simple: to replace several mutually incompatible escape systems with a single design that can be fitted into a fighter, an attack machine and a trainer alike. That saves the training of ground personnel and above all the storage of parts aboard an aircraft carrier, where every cubic meter is dear.
It can save the pilot even in the zero-zero regime, that is from a stationary aircraft at zero altitude. Electronics decide the sequence: sensors measure the speed and the altitude and set the delay between separation from the cabin and the deployment of the parachute accordingly. Older mechanical seats could not make that choice and were therefore riskier at the edges of the flight envelope. The marks of recognition are the tall headrest, the pair of side guide rails and the dense net of straps with metal buckles.
The casting in modeling resin in 1:32 replaces the seat from a plastic kit, which tends to be simplified down to a few facets. Resin holds sharp edges and the fine ribbing of the straps, which an injection mold cannot draw out. Rinse the part in lukewarm soapy water before building and let it dry, so that the paint does not settle on traces of mold release agent. It is glued into the cabin tub from the kit; in a large scale there is usually room enough behind the backrest to add the oxygen lines from thin wire.
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