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9 Rocket Sled Tests

Sean Fallon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:40:00 EDT

Following hot on the heels of the Mythbusters' epic rocket sled meets car obliteration, OObject has put together a list of 9 sleds that also involve fire, speed and making things go boom. [OObject]

Rocket Sled Attempts to Pancake a Car, Fails Gloriously

Mark Wilson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:57:29 EDT

In what must be the most incendiary Mythbusters test to date, the show's crew tried to flatten a car...using a 700mph, two-stage rocket sled.

Spoiler: The car doesn't quite flatten. It fragments all over the desert.

Spoiler 2: Rockets move very quickly. Or as Adam Savage so aptly puts it, "When that second stage kicked in I was thinking ‘I've never seen anything go that fast', and then I realized, actually that's correct: I have never seen anything go that fast." [via GadgetLab]

The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry

Mark Wilson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST

Ky Michaelson, or The Rocketman as he's known in some circles, doesn't trudge through the frozen winter tundra like the rest of us.

His custom-built rocket sled is modeled after a miniature Radio Flyer. Of course, his features machined aluminum rails, oak planks, front-mounted steering bars, speedometer, and, oh right, a freaking rocket strapped to the back.

But our favorite part of the rocket sled isn't the sled itself. It's that The Rocketman is testing his creation near some families who were probably happily ice skating on that pond before some lunatic Apocalypse Now'd the otherwise tranquil atmosphere, replacing the aroma of roasted chestnuts and hot chocolate with spent rocket fuel. [Rocketman via MAKE]