Ejection seat ID?

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OldGeezer

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I don't know which section to put this in but I know the admins do a fine job of correcting errors like that, so I'll put it here for the moment. Someone near me is selling an ejection seat that I just don't recognize at all. I used to work for Stencel and before that I was at the Naval Air Rework Facility in Norfolk VA, so I've seen my share of seats. I actually have an F-89 seat myself. But this one isn't anything I'm familiar with, and I can't find it on the usual reference sites. Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

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herman1rg said:
Can you get close up pictures of the name plates? I can see two, there may be more.
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One says "Seat man separator" which was a common feature in early seats, and the other is completely out of focus and unreadable. There's also another photo, a close-up of a tag saying General Dynamics with a part number, but I spent hours trying to make sense of that with no success. Near that one is a second "Seat-man separator" label. A friend with much more knowledge of ejection seats says that it's an early Air Mechanics Incorporated seat made for Republic, despite the GD tag. That would point toward F-84 but I've looked at dozens of cockpit photos of F-84s and while there are some similarities, there are also large differences. And that GD tag... it just doesn't make sense. I should go buy the seat, bring it back home, and go over it with a magnifier looking for other clues. $400 though...
 

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I had an old bookseller friend Tony Catt in Sydney Aust. During the later part of WW2, he worked at Martin Baker UK. He said they had these ladder-like rails that went up to the apex inside a hangar roof. Every now and then - there would be an alarm followed by the explosion of the latest seat being tested with a dummy.
Guess they perfected it in the end!
HP 52
 
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Based on the seat stencil in photo #2 perhaps,

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RB-57D-MA Canberra/53-3974
*Rebuilt as RB-57F 63-13503.
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The RB-57F had a different seat with a seat pan handle instead of arm-rest grips. Maybe changed in a mod programme, pic of RB-57F seat here:-
 
Probably removed from during a mod programme
 
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