BLOODHOUND SSC
Bloodhound SSC is a SUPERSONIC car created by the international education initiative Bloodhound Project to attempt a 1,000 mph world land speed record. The team aim to break the land speed record with the pencil-shaped car, powered by a JET ENGINE and a ROCKET designed to reach 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h) together with a Cosworth CA2010 FORMULA1 V8 PETROL ENGINE auxiliary power unit. It is being developed and built with the intention of breaking the land speed record by 33%, the largest ever margin.
If £15 million of sponsorship funding is obtained the construction should be complete by the end of 2012 and the record attempts should take place in 2013 and 2014.
ENGINE(S):
A prototype Eurojet EJ200 JET ENGINE developed for the Eurofighter and bound for a museum, was donated to the project. This will take the car to 300 mph (480 km/h), after which a bespoke HYBRID ROCKET designed by Daniel Jubb , 27, (from Manchester, who built his first rocket at the age of 5), will boost the car up to 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h).
A third engine, a 750 hp (560 kW) 2.4 Litre Cosworth CA2010 Formula 1 V8 petrol engine, is used as an auxiliary power unit and to drive the oxidiser pump for the rocket.
The jet engine will provide nine tonnes of thrust and the rocket will add another 12.
The supersonic car will have roughly the same power as 180 F1 cars.
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