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Friday, October 27, 2017 11 8 35,000 horsepower, six times more than all the cars on an average Formula 1 grid. 8 3,000C (5,400F) rocket temperature. About twice the temperature inside a volcano. 8 Covers a mile in 3.6 seconds, so it would take about 14 minutes to travel from its test site in Newquay to London. 8 180 decibels in volume, louder than a Boeing 747 jet Andy Green and Richard Noble pose next taking off. to Bloodhound SSC 8 0 to 1,000mph in 55 seconds, according to the team. London witnessed by more than 3,500 behaved brilliantly. A five likely to overtake it. Aussie Invader 5R and North when he would watch Spitfires eering through a enthusiastic spectators - was tonne car doing zero to The mastermind behind American Eagle. and Hurricanes flying in the windscreen no wider certainly impressive, but it 200 in eight seconds and Bloodhound - distinctive for But Ayers is confident it’s sky. thanP a letterbox RAF Wing will pale when the supersonic then slowing down. That is its orange snout and towering the Brits who are most likely Seventy five years Ayers Commander Andy Green car makes its attempt to unparalleled. tail fin designed to cut through to make history, because, he hopes Bloodhound will inspire puts his foot down and goes smash the 1,000mph barrier “We wanted to demonstrate desert winds - is 85-year-old says, “we’ve done it twice the next generation to pursue from nought to 210 mph over in South Africa in 2019. the car is ready to go faster Ron Ayers, who has come out before”. a career in engineering. 1.7 miles, in less time than it The test runs were the and the team is ready to go of retirement in an attempt to He added: “We rather “We firmly believe that takes the average person to first significant step on the faster. We did that in spades.” break his own record. suspect we’re ahead of them... the technology we’re creating walk 10 yards. long road to the dried-out The low slung cylindrical Ayers designed the so we might also push the is of value to the country,” Eight seconds later it’s all Hakskeen Pan lakebed in vehicle is powered by a Rolls Thrust SSC, in which Green record outside their reach.” he said. “We’re not doing over, the first test run carried Northern Cape, where Green Royce EJ200 jet engine, established his record 20 Ayers and the team hit on it just for the sake of the out by Bloodhound SSC in will attempt to smash his own capable of producing more years ago with a speed of the 1,000 mph target because record. We are doing it for front of the public successfully world land speed record of than 135,000 horsepower 763.035mph. it is the “ physical limit you educational reasons because completed. 763 mph, set in 1997. - more than six times the Determined to build a car can reach on land” before children love studying Within a few minutes the For an hour and a half combined power of all the capable of reaching 1,000mph “science becomes a barrier”. fast cars and it keeps them 14.65 yards long (13.4 metres) Newquay Airport was closed Formula 1 cars on a Grand he once again teamed up with His interest in planes began interested in engineering”. supersonic car sets off again to air traffic while the tests Prix starting grid. Green and Richard Noble as a child during the Blitz, (The Telegraph) down the runway at Newquay took place. Specially designed - holder of the land speed Airport, in Cornwall, flames As Bloodhound thundered suspension helped Green deal record between 1983 and 1997 shooting out of its exhaust down the runway cheers from with the violent thrust of the - to build Bloodhound. 8 engine as it once more reaches the crowd rang out - or at engine as well as ironing out Ayers, the project’s chief of December 1898: Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat reaches 39.24mph at 200 mph. least they would have done bumps in the runway. aerodynamics, worked on the Yvelines, in France, in his electric Jeantaud Duc 8 Yesterday’s display - had they not been drowned Inside the cockpit is a first prototype of the Victor October 1906: Dorothy Levitt breaks the women’s world speed record for out by the 180 decibel roar of bank of high-tech controls to bomber. the flying kilometre, with a speed of 91 mph, earning her the nickname the its engine. steer, monitor fuel flows and, He did not need much “Fastest Girl on Earth” 8 Afterwards, Green, hailed crucially, brake. persuading to roll his sleeves June 1914: Lydston Hornsted sets the first land speed record under the day a success. “This is the The jet intake is as high up again, saying, “I don’t need new Association International des Automobile Clubs Reconnusrules, reaching longest ride we have done above the ground as possible talking into it if there’s an 124.09mph in his Benz No 3 at Brooklands race track, Surrey. 8 and the highest speeds we to avoid being clogged by opportunity and a challenge September 1925: Malcolm Campbell set his first land speed record with his have done,” he said. “It desert dust when more to meet”. Sunbeam 350HP, reaching 150.87mph at Pendine, Carmarthen Bay 8 was hotter and harder advanced tests take place. For the Thrust SSC the February 1927: Campbell reaches 174.88mph in Blue Bird, again at Pendine 8 work than I was Green joked that one thing team used two jet engines. February 1928: Campbell hits 206.95mph at Daytona Beach, USA, in Blue expecting. Bloodhound does not need This time they opted for one, Bird 8 “But the car itself is wing mirrors. After all, a donated Eurofighter engine, September 1935: After setting a further four land speed records Campbell just nothing is said to be the best in the becomes the first person to breach the 300mph barrier, reaching 301.29mph in world. his Campbell Railton Blue Bird at Bonneville Salt Flats, USA 8 On Bloodhound’s tail September 1947: John Cobb sets the last land speed record before the jet are two rival teams, the propulsion era, reaching 394.19mph at Bonneville Salt flats in his Railton Mobil Special 8 August 1963: Craig Breedlove hits 407.44mph in his three-wheeled Spirit of America at Bonneville Salt Flats 8 October 1964: Breedlove smashes the 500mph barrier, reaching 526.27mph in Spirit of America, at Bonneville Flats 8 October 1983: Richard Noble reaches 633.47mph in Thrust 2 at Black Rock Desert, USA 8 September 1997: Andy Green hits 714.14mph in Thrust SSC at Black Rock Desert 8 October 1997: Green does it again, hitting 763.03mph in Thrust SSC at Black Rock Desert Bloodhound SSC during the test run.

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