Posted on Jun 14, 2018

Here’s the High Speed Test Track The U.S. Air Force Uses To Perform Simulated Ejections Of...

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Located at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, and operated by the 846th Test Squadron, the HHSTT is one of the world’s longest tracks, used to perfom tests in a realistic scenario, where a special sled can be launched at speeds in excess of 9,000 feet per second, that is around Mach 8.6 calculating for altitude!

Here’s the High Speed Test Track The U.S. Air Force Uses To Perform Simulated Ejections Of...

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Holloman AFB

Posted 6 y ago

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SFC Jim Ruether

Posted 6 y ago

That was a great video and read! Thanks for posting it. Crazy what they would subject humans to so that they could come up with safer ejection systems but all worth it.

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Here’s the High Speed Test Track The U.S. Air Force Uses To Perform Simulated Ejections Of...

Here’s the High Speed Test Track The U.S. Air Force Uses To Perform Simulated Ejections Of...

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