Some of the carbon fibre panels will be removed to reveal its inner workings, including the Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine and Jaguar V8 engine oxidiser pump for the Nammo rocket cluster.
The car is the product of eight years of research, design and manufacturing, involving over 350 companies and universities.
In the cockpit, the there is a digital dashboard, designed by the driver, as well as manual back-ups for major controls. Custom-made Rolex instruments provide another layer of redundancy for the digital read-outs.
500 sensors monitor the car’s progress. “Bloodhound SSC has not been designed simply to reach 1000mph; it must do so safely,” said the team. As such, there are also three separate braking systems and seven fire extinguishers. 12 video cameras monitor progress.
A track for the record attempt is being prepared on the Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa – a flat space 19x3km is needed, and 317 locals have shifted 15,800 tonnes of stones by hand from 22 million square metres of desert.
However, first tests will be next Easter on a runway in Newquay, where the car is expected to reach 200mph. 800mph is planned during the first set of South African tests, followed by a data review in the UK, then a return to South Africa in 2017 for 1,000mph attempts.
The project includes the promotion of STEM (science, technology engineering and maths) subjects at school. For example, in the Bloodhound Model Rocket Car Challenge, students design build and operate 300mm long rocket powered cars. From 88mph speeds have risen through 210mph to 553mph – the latter by Joseph Whitaker Young Engineers.
6000 UK primary and secondary schools signed up for free Bloodhound education resources and there are 150 STEM school events per year, intended to reach over 100,000 students. The plan is to deliver lessons to 2.5million school children by 2018.
“65% of students engaged by Bloodhound would now consider engineering or science vocation”, said the Bloodhound organisation, following a survey of 1,804 students.
Bloodhound SSC
- 13.5m long
- Rolls-Royce EJ200 Typhoon Eurofighter engine
- Three Nammo hybrid rocket motors
- 550 bhp oxidiser pump
- ~135,000 thrust hp in total
- 0-1,000mph in 55s
- 1,000-0mph in 65s
- One mile in 3.6s at max
- Wheels spin at 10,200rpm (170 rev/s, generating 50,000G radial force)
- Forces of -3G are experienced during braking
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