Bloodhound automobile kicks off bid for 1000 mph speed record

The Bloodhound Supersonic Car, effectively a warrior jet on wheels, on Thursday kicked off a bid to bark into a record books by eventually reaching 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h).

Before a throng of spectators, a blue and orange, spacecraft-like automobile with a high tail and long, rocket-shaped nose done dual exam runs down a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) track, attaining 200 mph (320 km/h) in about 9 seconds. That means it didn’t indeed go supersonic — a speed of sound is 767 mph (1,235 km/h).

It was a initial open hearing of a vehicle, powered by an EJ200 jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon warrior jet, ahead of a universe record bid in South Africa in a subsequent few years.

Twenty years after environment a stream universe land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 km/h) in a Bloodhound’s predecessor, Andy Green, a British atmosphere force pilot, will aim to transcend his achievement.

“We came here to contend Bloodhound is Go! And that’s exactly what we managed to denote today,” Green pronounced after a test run in Newquay in a southwest of England.

“The performance, a handling, a fortitude of it — I can’t error a automobile during all, it only worked brilliantly.”

Bloodhound SSC goes by a paces during Newquay airport, in Newquay southwest England, Thursday Oct. 26, 2017. It was a initial open hearing of a vehicle, powered by an EJ200 jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon warrior jet, forward of a universe record bid in South Africa in a subsequent few years. (Ben Birchall/PA around Associated Press)

The Bloodhound plan was launched in 2008 in London with the design of conceptualizing a automobile means to strech speeds of 1,000 mph. About 30 million pounds ($51 million Cdn) has been invested in a plan interjection to support from a open and sponsors including Chinese automobile organisation Geely and Rolls Royce among others.

The altogether cost tab could strech 60 million pounds ($101 million Cdn).

If a roughly 13-metre-long automobile achieves its target 1,000 mph, that would transcend a low-altitude speed record for aircraft of 994 mph, according to a Bloodhound project website.

At 1,000 mph, it would cover a stretch homogeneous to over four football pitches each second. 

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bloodhound-supersonic-car-1.4367664?cmp=rss