Supersonic speed? To “educate” engineers, yeah right, fast toy for Engineer boys!

by AllAutoExperts    |  17 April, 2020

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The construction of a vehicle intended to break the supersonic speed record should help UK engineers develop new techniques. The Bloodhound SSC project has been joined by Castrol and many British companies to design a combination jet engine/rocket car to hopefully exceed 1000mph!

The world speed record held since 1997 by Andy Green, a speed of 1228 km / h (763 mph). It was the first and so far only land-based vehicle to overcome the speed of sound. An RAF fighter pilot drove the car named Thrust SSC, for the British team led by Richard Noble. For a long time, it seemed that the effort to establish higher ground supersonic speed records ended.

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Richard Noble and Andy Green, however, decided otherwise. They want to surpass the 1000 mph (1609 km / h) and thus motivate young people to acquire an interest in studying technical fields and help replace the departing generation of engineers in the UK aerospace industry.

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The project involved more than 250 British companies. In solving partial tasks but also engaged British schools under its educational programs. More than 5,500 UK primary and secondary schools will be free to use teaching-learning materials from the project to inspire young people to study math and science.

Bloodhound SSC has a hybrid powertrain consisting of a jet engine Rolls-Royce EJ200, used in the Eurofighter Typhoon fighters and rocket engine NAMMO. Pump with oxidizer for rocket motor drives the Jaguar V8 with an output of 405 kW (550 hp). The Jet engine gives the vehicle speed of 560 km / h. Andy Green then presses a button on the steering wheel and fire a rocket engine.

The Bloodhound team combed the globe to find a perfectly flat and long desert on which to record the vehicle to go. The choice fell on the Hakskeen Pan desert in the Northern Cape in South Africa.

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