ROCKET SLED

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	A sled that runs on a rail or rails and is accelerated to high velocities by a rocket engine.This sled is used in determining g-tolerances and for developing crash survival techniques. Rocket sleds are at Edwards Air Force Base, Holloman Air Force Base, and the Naval Ordnance Test Station. See snort track. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Rocket sled

A rocket sled is essentially a small railroad car with rockets attached. It was used extensively, by the United States early in the Cold War, to accelerate and test equipment considered too experimental (hazardous) for testing directly in piloted development test aircraft. The equipment to be tested under high acceleration or high airspeed conditions was installed along with appropriate instrumentation, data recording, and telemetry equipment on the sled. The sled was then accelerated according to the experiment's design requirements for data collection along a length of isolated, precisely level and straight, test track.

Testing ejection seat systems and technology prior to their use in experimental or operational aircraft was a common application of the rocket sled at Edwards Air Force Base.

It is interesting to note that Murphy's law originated in conjunction with rocket sled testing.

Modern Usage: ROCKET SLED

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Like a rocket sled on rails. (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ROCKET SLED

Anagrams: ROCKET SLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-k-l-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: restocked.
	-2 letters: closeted, corselet, corseted, electors, electros, escorted, relocked, restoked, rocketed, sectored, selector, socketed.
	-3 letters: cestode, clerked, coldest, colters, corslet, costrel, creoles, crested, deckels, deckers, deckles, dockers, dockets, elector, electro, escoted, kelters, kestrel, lectors, lockers, lockets, oersted, oldster, recodes, redocks, relocks, resoled, restock, restoke, rockets, scolder, skelter, soleret, stocked, stocker, stroked, tercels, teredos.
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