The 12.8 m showcar is coming to London, was parked on The Strand near Charing Cross station from 10:00 - 12:00 on Sunday 17th Oct.
Now this is how you generate a bit of publicity....
FUEL PUMP
750hp CA2010 Cosworth
This little baby is to pump 800 litres of HTP (peroxide) in 20 seconds .....
Looks like the bottle blondies are gunna have to go without for a while
Re: Bloodhound SSC
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:53 am
by Lynchy
Hey Ross
After chatting the other day about Gary Gabelich and the Blue Flame I went to the newsagent and bought a copy of Octane which strangely enough had a small article on.... the Blue Flame!
I might scan it for you..... maybe
Lynchy
Re: Bloodhound SSC
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:44 am
by Lynchy
Looking at the Sydney Morning Herald online today and found this:
Andy Green news post:
I’ve just been to inspect the work on Hakskeen Pan, in the Northern Cape, where we’ll be running BLOODHOUND SSC next year, as we test and develop the Car up to our astonishing target of 1000 mph. The scale of the work required to prepare this surface is truly vast.
The Car will need to do a number of test runs, so our Main Track is 500 m wide, to give us multiple lanes to run on (each time the Car runs on the hard soil surface, its metal wheel cut ruts, so each lane is one-use-only). The Track is 12 miles (19 km) long – which is just long enough to accelerate to 1000 mph, then stop again before the desert ends. This process will only take 2 minutes, from setting off to coming to a halt 12 miles away
Here's a link to Artist Stefan Marjoram's page on Vimeo. Good to see his caliber of talent and passion dedicated to documenting the Bloodhound project. There's a fantastic six minute piece on Thrust2 with Richard Noble stirring emotions with in the drivers-seat stories of the project and record attempts.
