The test in late March 2022 was part of the Air Force's Hypersonic Sled Recovery (HSR ... stretching back to NASA's X-15 rocket plane project in the 1950s and '60s. One major problem is the ...

a Holloman Air Force Base news release states. The Holloman High Speed Test Track is a rocket sled test track that is the "longest, most precisely aligned and best instrumented facility of its ...

“Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket sled ... Air Force and Navy with advanced solid rocket motors and sleds to support development of the nation’s next generation defense needs.” Track testing ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) will supply rocket motors and sleds to a joint U.S. Air Force-Navy program ... U.S. military flight test tracks through the Joint Economical Sled Track Rockets ...

His mind and body were put to the test in the United States Air Force in the 1950s as a high-speed rocket sled test volunteer at what became the Aerospace Research Laboratory, developing methods ...

Air Force engineers built a rocket sled to test the gravitational forces on real human bodies, aircraft seats and protective harnesses. The 2000-foot long track with a series of hydraulic brakes ...

The Air Force received three ... and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges, sled tracks, centrifuges and other ...