Bloodhound SSC 1,000mph car revealed
Bloodhound SSC 1,000mph car revealed Full-size model goes on display at Farnborough Air Show.
After three years of painstaking aerodynamic work, the first full-size model of the 1,000mph Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) has gone on display at the Farnborough Air Show.
The model’s unveiling coincides with the news that the Bloodhound project team has signed a deal with aerospace manufacturer Hampson Industries. The firm will be responsible for building the rear of the real Bloodhound next year.
The Bloodhound project will be the first ever attempt made at breaking the 1,000mph barrier on land. The car uses a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine combined with a Falcon hybrid rocket to produce 133,000bhp.
The Bloodhound is 12.8-metres long and weighs six tonnes. But with all that power on board, the project team has calculated that the car will sprint from 0-1,000mph in 42 seconds.
Providing that enough sponsorship can be found, the Bloodhound record attempt is due to happen in a dried up lakebed called Hakskeen Pan, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
The car will be driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, the same man who drove Thrust SSC to the current land speed record of 763mph in 1997.
The Bloodhound SSC project is being masterminded by Richard Noble who drove Thrust2 to the land speed record in 1983, and oversaw the Thrust SSC record-breaking bid.
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