Britian Is Aiming To break The Land Speed Record ..over 1000mph with The Bloodhound
 

This is going to fun to watch

Design fixed for 1,000mph car

The UK team aiming to smash its own land speed record by driving a car beyond 1,000mph (1,610km/h) has settled on a final design for the vehicle.

It calls for a major re-configuration of the vehicle's two power units, with a Eurofighter jet engine now being positioned above a hybrid rocket.

The car, known as Bloodhound, will be built in Bristol's docklands.

The team expects to start running the vehicle on the Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, in 2011.

The dried-out lake bed had the perfect surface for the record attempt, said Bloodhound's driver, Wing Commander Andy Green.

"It's hard enough to support a six-tonne car on metal wheels but soft enough to allow the wheels just to sink in maybe 10mm," he told BBC News.

See the video here and the rest of the story here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8374491.stm

The UK needs all their cars to be able to take that sort of wind speed at the moment! The winds are really bad!

Yeah its been pretty shitty over here with all the floods now strong winds

Its certainly getting bad over here.


Ive just looked at that clip. Its pretty cool just watching the graphic. I cant see it possible but these days anything is!

Where would it be used though? It would need to be just for a record.

i once fed a donkey a bucket of habanero's and broke the mexican land speed record of 37 mph...

bassets can set a speed record but only for dinner eating

You still play on Forex

lol yeah I bet they can

no.. when they changed the rules i exited out.. i had a good run..

glad i got on when i did, i had been playing the dollar long against the yen..

The friggin dollar and the pound keeps changing day to bloody day. :1orglaugh... Every time I get paid the dollar seems to increase strength! :Oh crap

yep they have changed the rules again they have changed the Usable Margin to a higher rate

The last guy missed the sound barrier by about 5 - 7 mph. Will be interesting to see what happens when a land vehicle breaks the barrier and how the pressure wave affects the vehicle.

Why is there even a steering wheel in that thing? Cornering at 1000 mph?

Over 1000mph. Amazing. Beautiful to see someone take a shot at the world record. Fuck you. Thanks for posting the article.

When you're doing 400 metres per second there's not really much chance to correct any drift. :1orglaugh