[Closed] OMFG! Bloodhound SSC is parked outside the office!

Have the left the keys in it ?

Can you stash your GPS in it and get a few KOM's ?

Like to see you ask for a couple of hundred litres of HTP at the tesco's garage

Lucky git. Can you see if they've printed my kids names on the tailfin yet? They're not called Castrol or Royce.

Pictures please 8)

Sorry to shatter your plans of a rapid trip to the shops but it is probably the 1:1 scale model (unless your office is inside a shed in avonmouth). They'd also need to have really cracked on with assembly as the shell was in for paint a few days ago.

Pictures please

For pics it's worth going to 'the bloodhound project' Facebook page. Lots of pics of the guts which are far more interesting to us geeks.

I fully expect it will be the mock-up. Still proper exciting though.

Just stand stand around with a marshmallow on a stick looking hopeful.

Yeah pics needed, how can it just be parked outside your office?? ❓

My, my dads and grandads names are written on the side of it somewhere. Be a dear and check?

Are they dick and harry?

😆

A less hilarious Steven and Roy unfortunately!

Yeah pics needed, how can it just be parked outside your office??

It'll be on a fundraising/awareness tour. It came to my workplace a year or so ago.
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I'd like to see them drive it over the speed bumps in our business park, plus the turning circle will be terrible. And it doesn't even have wing mirrors.....

It'll be on a fundraising/awareness tour.

Pretty cool, I'd never heard of it before this thread.

And it doesn't even have wing mirrors....

Who is going to be overtaking it 🙂

[i]Who is going to be overtaking it[/i]

Daz from sales.

Daz from sales.

'musin.

For those not aware, get a good brew on and watch this. Proper British boffin time.

Okay, so, I've been for a look.

It is the mockup ( slight 🙁 ), but it's still pretty cool. No names on it, they're on the real thing apparently.

It's there because the building I work at in Swindon is the old Burma Castrol head office, and we share it with some BP/Castrol folks (I'm here working for the building society what is famous for the woods behind it, which in my case are actually down the road a bit).

Fun fact: it's got three engines; a jet engine from a typhoon(!), a rocket engine and a Jaguar engine who's sole purpose is to pump 800 litres of fuel to the rocket engine in 20 seconds...

Brilliant video that.

Yep. That video, especially the flight 😯

lol @ Lucas

Dobbo - Member
It'll be on a fundraising/awareness tour.
Pretty cool, I'd never heard of it before this thread.

I could listen to that boffin talk forever and if Andy Green was talking me through, I reckon there isn't much I couldn't do.

I now feel ashamed to admit I'd never heard of this before. Looks ace. Will keep an eye on it from now on. Top thread.

It's new to me too!

I know nothing about flying or aeroplanes, but watching the Chris Harris video has me curious... What make/model is the 'stunt' plane, and how much would it cost? Not that I'm looking to buy...

Looks like an Extra 300

Thanks very much.

Saw it at Wilton Classic and Supercar show at the weekend. Big beast isn't it?

what happened to the Cosworth engine they were going to use for the fuel pump?

My understanding of the video up there is that jag wanted to be involved so they switched it to a jag engine. He says that the cosworth engine was smaller but because it revved so high there was no other advantage to using it.

The video above suggests one of a couple of possibilities:

- car engine is more tolerant so can suck up decelerated and hot air with more willingness

- jaguar is a big name, deep pockets sponsor who wanted an in, so the project changed whereas they'd probably picked up the Cosworth on ebay (easy come easy go)

Of course this car ought to and now does have major 'UK-ish' car manufacturer written all over it. If it doesn't get smashed to a million pieces over South Africa I expect and hope it'll end up next to Thrust2 and ThrustSSC in Coventry Transport Museum.

jaguar is a big name, deep pockets sponsor who wanted an in, so the project changed whereas they'd probably picked up the Cosworth on ebay (easy come easy go)

You what?

Aside from deeper pockets Jaguar have nothing to offer that Cosworth haven't been doing for years. The real reason seems to be that the rocket motor was changed and so Cosworth dropped out when they stopped producing the F1 engines and Jag took over. It was an amicable split rather than Jag muscling in.

Pretty sure it's that the F1 engine is much more highly strung and more sensitive to less than perfect conditions. And that by swapping the reducer gear round they could get the same performance, more reliably, from a regular (ish) car engine. Then jag stepped in.

The more I think about what he's got to get into and do, the bigger I realise Andy Green's balls are!

Soooo..... did it get a clamp?

So the the car is going on display in London apparently (tickets all sold out). I'm getting pretty excited about the whole projects!

There are so many different aspects that blow my mind, so here is one of them: the wheels

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31845234 ]So much more to it than you would have thought!![/url]

It's over in Canary Wharf from tomorrow through Saturday open to the public, in East Wintergarden.

I went today but they're still setting it all up, the "pod" is outside but the car isn't there yet..

I thought it had sold out? [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34341017 ]BBC[/url]

Well we tried to get in and only one security guard told us it wasn't open until tomorrow, when asked "can we come back?" He said yes.