That led him to the story of "Slam'n" Sammy Miller, a drag racer who put skis on a rocket dragster and set a world ice speed record, going from zero to 247 mph in 1.6 seconds on Lake George in New ...

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MANAWA, Wis. (WLUK) -- It's not the kind of headline you see everyday. But on Sunday, it was Kurt Anderson's story. He wanted to drive the fastest rocket engine ice drag racer in the world. As ...

Now, his shop he calls Area 52 is filled with race cars and rockets, including his Arctic Arrow, a sled he hopes will break a 39-year-old world speed record, giving him the maximum G-force of a ...

Dramatic moment man crashes rocket sled at 241mph during speed record attempt over a frozen lake - and walks away unscathed vowing to try again Kurt Anderson blasted across Manawa Snodeo on Bear ...

John Paul Stapp, a retired Air Force colonel and medical researcher who once rode a rocket-powered sled at a speed faster than a .45-caliber bullet in an experiment to test the limits of human ...

Col. John P. Stapp comes to the end of his record-setting rocket sled test at the Holloman High Speed Test Track, Dec. 10, ... The New Space Race" published in 2019 by National Geographic.

Though previous rocket sleds have reached speeds in excess of Mach 8, these faster sleds were not recovered. In early March, a sled traveling at 6,400 feet per second (1,951 m/s) on a monorail ...

Did they recall 21-year-old Syracuse University student Harry Bull and his rocket sled in March 1931? If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may ...