Tests were conducted to determine the feasibility and practicability of using water-filled frangible rail-top trays to brake monorail track vehicles. This braking technique has been tested at entrance velocities of up to approximately fifteen hundred feet per second with predictable and effective results. (Author)
Test Results of Rail Top Plastic Trays as a Means of Programmed Water Braking for Monorail Rocket Sleds
1968
23 pages
Report
No indication
English
Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Fluid Mechanics , Sleds , Water brakes , Rocket , Test vehicles , Model basins , Model tests , Test facilities , Feasibility studies , Velocity , Braking , Recovery , Expanded plastics , Styrene plastics , Control systems , Mathematical prediction , Correlation techniques , Deceleration , Monorail rocket sleds , Railtop plastic trays , Frangible plastics
High-speed monorail rocket sleds for aerodynamic testing at high Reynolds numbers
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