It was December 10, 1954. The end of World War II was less than a decade in the rearview mirror of the world's collective consciousness, and the rocket age was booming. A United States Air Force ...

This rocket sled is moving at 3300 mph, an astonishing land speed captured here with extreme flash photography. Rocket sleds are also the reason why we have Murphy’s Law. Over at Oobject, you can see ...

That's the target speed — at a minimum — for Kurt Anderson, who plans to break a long-standing world record this month with a rocket-powered sled on a small east-central Wisconsin lake near Manawa.

For the first time, the US Air Force has successfully recovered a reusable rocket sled traveling at hypersonic speed. The test in late March 2022 was part of the Air Force's Hypersonic Sled Recovery ...

The U.S. Air Force recovered the hypersonic sled as part of its Hypersonic Sled Recovery (HSR) project. The 846th Test Squadron conducted testing of the hypersonic sled at the Holloman Air Force Base ...

Lt. Col. John P. Stapp has caught and passed a jet plane while riding his rocket-propelled sled to a record speed of 632 miles an hour. The daring HADC medical officer accomplished the feat in just ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is the Sonic Wind 1 rocket sled, which was powered by nine solid fuel rockets with 40,000 pounds total thrust for ...

The test marked the fastest recovery of a monorail sled in over 30 years, and the first time a planned reusable sled was ever recovered at those speeds. The test paves the way for more hypersonic ...

In his quest to become the fastest man on ice, Kurt Anderson naturally wanted to build a drag-racing sled powered by a rocket engine. He also added a pair of parachutes and an emergency brake called a ...

The rocket sled at Sandia Labs is designed to intentionally slam bombs and missiles into a wall. The sled ride models the impact of weapons against surfaces. The results give engineers an idea how ...