Bloodhound, the car designed to hit 1,600kph, is back from the dead – and will be in the Northern Cape this October

[RaptorSA]

Lot's of crap news in SA at the moment, so I thought this might be fun to share...

Bloodhound, the car designed to hit 1,600kph, is back from the dead – and will be in the Northern Cape this October | News24

The Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record project, which went bankrupt last year, hopes to hit at least 500 miles per hour (more than 800kph) in testing in Hakskeen Pan in the Kalahari with its jet-powered car soon.

www.businessinsider.co.za

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1172076192163385344

Bloodhound Diary: Do the maths

Bloodhound Diary: Do the maths

The approaching high-speed trials will help validate the assumptions that went into building the world's fastest car.

www.bbc.com

Man, I would love to go and see this...

 

[Gordon_R]

Lot's of crap news in SA at the moment, so I thought this might be fun to share...

Bloodhound, the car designed to hit 1,600kph, is back from the dead – and will be in the Northern Cape this October | News24

The Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record project, which went bankrupt last year, hopes to hit at least 500 miles per hour (more than 800kph) in testing in Hakskeen Pan in the Kalahari with its jet-powered car soon.

www.businessinsider.co.za

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1172076192163385344

Bloodhound Diary: Do the maths

Bloodhound Diary: Do the maths

The approaching high-speed trials will help validate the assumptions that went into building the world's fastest car.

www.bbc.com

Man, I would love to go and see this...

I read this article yesterday, and it is part of a long testing process. IMO this link does not justify being in the news section.

You cannot go and watch this, it is a closed testing session:

For those of you that are going to follow our testing progress this year, I'm sorry that you can't join us in South Africa.

The high-speed testing is a "closed" session, as there won't be any spectator facilities.

 

[RaptorSA]

I read this article yesterday, and it is part of a long testing process. IMO this link does not justify being in the news section.

Yeah, there's no racism in it.

 

[ProfA]

This thing does not fit the dictionary description of a car.

 

[Gordon_R]

This thing does not fit the dictionary description of a car.

Well, it has wheels, and those are a critical part of the steering and handling:

Running on the Hakskeen Pan desert in South Africa this year will also show us how the dry mud/silt surface interacts with Bloodhound's solid metal wheels.

Fairly obviously, the wheels will be supporting the car and providing the lateral grip for steering at slow speed.

As the car speeds up, the grip from the wheels will reduce, before the aerodynamic forces start to take over.

During this transition, I'll be working hard to assess the effects on the car's handling and stability.

Vehicle stability is not the only thing that we need to understand, though. As the car runs over the mud surface, the wheels will throw up a "spray" of dust particles.

This choking thick dust cloud will get sucked into the airflow around the wheels, up into the wheel bays and around the back half of the car.

 

[ponder]

You cannot go and watch this, it is a closed testing session:

It's not private property, there's a public tarred road running through the northern section and elevated land around the pan so I can't see how they gonna stop people that will drive out there to have a look.

 

[Gordon_R]

Update, its here: https://www.wheels24.co.za/WildOnWh...-lsr-car-sniffs-south-african-soil-20191021-2

 

[Gordon_R]

Decent speeds being reached in trials:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50267207

The Bloodhound vehicle has become the third fastest British car of all time - unofficially.

The arrow-shaped racer clocked a speed of 461mph (741km/h) as it powered across a dried-out lakebed in southern Africa's Kalahari desert on Friday.

This mark tops the 403mph (648km/h) recorded by Donald Campbell in his Bluebird CN7 car in 1964.

 

[ponder]

Decent speeds being reached in trials:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50267207

Probably also the fasted sa unofficial record.

 

[Gordon_R]

More speed improvements, probably the record for this year's testing: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50438614

Bloodhound has now joined the exclusive club of land speed racers that have gone faster than 600mph (965km/h).

Running across its dry lakebed track on Saturday, the British car's GPS sensors clocked 628mph (1,010km/h).

Only six vehicles in the history of the land speed record have previously driven beyond 600mph.

Bloodhound's achievement is notable because it's been running with only the thrust of a jet engine. The car's design allows for a rocket motor, too.

When this is fitted next year, as planned, the arrow-shaped machine should be in a very strong position to smash the current world record of 763mph (1,228km/h).

 

[LaraC]

The driver back then was the same as in Bloodhound today - RAF pilot Andy Green.

So.... You need a pilots' licence to drive this car?

 

[NeonNinja]

Suicide motor vehicle.

 

[MachoPants]

So.... You need a pilots' licence to drive this car?

And a big barrel to carry your brass ballas

 

[Gordon_R]

Edited version of the final run for this season: