CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — Calspan Corp.’s new sled testing facility is ready for business. Sled testing is a simulated crash testing for the automotive industry. The facility at 40 Sonwil Drive in ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 115, Section 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CAR: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS JOURNAL (2006), pp. 167-172 (6 pages) To confirm the effectiveness of protection equipment installed in vehicles, ...

Holiday travelers: Listen up and buckle up! New research shows that unbelted backseat passengers risk injury or death to themselves and the driver seated in front of them in the event of a head-on ...

ALAMOGORDO – Three, two, one, Fire! Then a wooden car whizzed down one of the hallways at Alamogordo High School Monday evening during a carbon dioxide car launcher demonstration. The demonstration ...

The DRDO has successfully conducted a high-speed rocket-sled test of a fighter aircraft escape system at controlled velocity, ...

UK: Millbrook improves crash test equipment A new servo sled that will improve the accuracy, repeatability and correlation of test pulses to a real crash will be the first facility of its kind in the ...

MESSRING constructed two new sled test facilities for Takata in Brazil and Romania. The international OEM of passenger protection systems commissioned two compact impact simulators (CIS), including ...

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Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has demonstrated submunitions dispensing from a supersonic vehicle in sled tests performed under a programme to develop technology for a high-speed weapon that is among ...