
The Air Force's 846th Test Squadron at Holloman AFB, N.M., has conducted two recovery tests of hypersonic sleds traveling at about Mach 5, the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) said on Oct. 26. In both tests, testers stopped the two sleds moving at speeds of 5,300 feet per second--3,613 miles per hour--on a 10-mile monorail as part of the Hypersonic Sled Recovery (HSR) effort. That monorail is part of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT),…