RE: Bloodhound SSC - "we're winning!"

[Dave Hedgehog]

for some reason i have very little interest in this thing

[Jaykaybi]

The Bloodhound SSC will be at Wilton this year. Just sayin'

[DanDC5]

Having seen the mockup model of this car at Autosport this year, it is massive! £75 seems like a good deal to see this thing in action, and it's nice to know my money would go towards a bit of fuel

[McSam]

My name's been on the Fin List a year

I absolutely can't wait for it to start rolling, and I'm seriously considering Gold membership because really, no matter what it costs, you know where it's going. Directly financing something as amazing as this is a very good feeling indeed

[yorkieboy]

A nice tribute that it is being built next to a Iconic engineered ship that is the SS. Great Britain. And in the middle of Bristol I for one am very excited about Bloodhound and that I live less than a mile away from where it is being built

[JonathanLegard]

Nice article, Richard.

Can't wait for this to be successful.

[Stevie Mojo]

Dave Hedgehog said:

for some reason i have very little interest in this thing

Enough to read it and comment on it!?

[Mr-B]

r1ch said:

0-1000 in 42 seconds. Not bad

Pfft, shirley a remapped 335 is quicker??

[OdramaSwimLaden]

r1ch said:

arkenphel said:

Riiiight, clearing millions of square feet of rock doesn't quite sound environmentally friendly. I'm no greenie, but just for the sake of setting a LSR it sounds rather pointlessly destructive.

Good for the local economy, I suppose, but I thought the bloodhound team were short of money...

Are you not excited about a car that does 1000mph?

Big WOW; in 3-5 years time it will be the new Nova/Saxo with tints and a big exhaust.

[Pistonwot]

Schnellmann said:

Beware the trolls....

Yep, 1000mph,, hitting the Troll at that speed could cause one to veer off course into the rock-pile left at the side of the runway,,, then they will eat you!



I agree that us British are utterly miserable when it comes to rewarding great people who make great discoveries.
"Whats that you say Bertie,,, youve made a cold fusion reactor the size of a Tennis ball and it will power Manchester forever for free. Well done old bean",,
IF Bertie is lucky he may get 1 pat on the back as his Tax increases and peers sack and ridicule him into poverty for being a smartarse.

[iain1970]

Mr-B said:

r1ch said:

0-1000 in 42 seconds. Not bad

Pfft, shirley a remapped 335 is quicker??

And £18m??? You could buy a lot of used 911s for that. It's not even rear wheel drive. Or manual.

And don't call me Shirley.

[Otispunkmeyer]

can't recruit engineers?

Seems to be one of these things that is slightly conflicting. Can't recruit engineers... Yet there are probably loads of engineers out there wanting a job... they just don't tick all the many boxes the recruitment people unrealistically expect of people. But I bet that is also because aren't willing to pay for good engineering talent. We hear this argument all the time, that big companies pay top employees vast amounts of dough as a means of keeping and attracting the top "talent". Why doesn't this apply in engineering? heck it should apply in any job... you want the best, pay the best. simple.

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Friday 20th July 11:44

[German]

Otispunkmeyer said:

can't recruit engineers?

Seems to be one of these things that is slightly conflicting. Can't recruit engineers... Yet there are probably loads of engineers out there wanting a job... they just don't tick all the many boxes the recruitment people unrealistically expect of people. But I bet that is also because aren't willing to pay for good engineering talent. We here this argument all the time, that big companies pay top employees vast amounts of dough as a means of keeping and attracting the top "talent". Why doesn't this apply in engineering? heck it should apply in any job... you want the best, pay the best. simple.

Any Engineers looking for good pay, job prospects and respect should learn German, simple as that. Currently need 80,000 new engineers and there are so few studying the required amount will only increase. Also every other tit cant call themselves a "waste water management engineer" (that'd make you the poo pipe unblocker then would it mate?) so its still a respected thing to do

[thewheelman]

r1ch said:

arkenphel said:

Riiiight, clearing millions of square feet of rock doesn't quite sound environmentally friendly. I'm no greenie, but just for the sake of setting a LSR it sounds rather pointlessly destructive.

Good for the local economy, I suppose, but I thought the bloodhound team were short of money...

Are you not excited about a car that does 1000mph?

I know I'm not excited by it in anyway. You can hardly call it a car, it's more like a jet with no wings.

[DanDC5]

OdramaSwimLaden said:

r1ch said:

arkenphel said:

Riiiight, clearing millions of square feet of rock doesn't quite sound environmentally friendly. I'm no greenie, but just for the sake of setting a LSR it sounds rather pointlessly destructive.

Good for the local economy, I suppose, but I thought the bloodhound team were short of money...

Are you not excited about a car that does 1000mph?

Big WOW; in 3-5 years time it will be the new Nova/Saxo with tints and a big exhaust.

Am I the only one in wondering what the fk you're going on about with this comment?

[Otispunkmeyer]

German said:

Otispunkmeyer said:

can't recruit engineers?

Seems to be one of these things that is slightly conflicting. Can't recruit engineers... Yet there are probably loads of engineers out there wanting a job... they just don't tick all the many boxes the recruitment people unrealistically expect of people. But I bet that is also because aren't willing to pay for good engineering talent. We here this argument all the time, that big companies pay top employees vast amounts of dough as a means of keeping and attracting the top "talent". Why doesn't this apply in engineering? heck it should apply in any job... you want the best, pay the best. simple.

Any Engineers looking for good pay, job prospects and respect should learn German, simple as that. Currently need 80,000 new engineers and there are so few studying the required amount will only increase. Also every other tit cant call themselves a "waste water management engineer" (that'd make you the poo pipe unblocker then would it mate?) so its still a respected thing to do

Hopefully going to start to learn german this year. I have a German colleague I've been picking things up of. A lot of people dont seem to like the german language and accent too much, its not very romantic sounding not like french or italian... but I quite like it as a language, it just sounds techno.

[richb77]

I "sponsored" bloodhound quite a few years ago.

Apparently it meant my name would appear on the vehicle somewhere.

I'm glad my tiny (in the scale of this feat) offering is bearing some fruit

Good on the entire team. Without the likes of you pushing the boundaries of technology man kind would stagnate.

[ptn]

German said:

Otispunkmeyer said:

can't recruit engineers?

Seems to be one of these things that is slightly conflicting. Can't recruit engineers... Yet there are probably loads of engineers out there wanting a job... they just don't tick all the many boxes the recruitment people unrealistically expect of people. But I bet that is also because aren't willing to pay for good engineering talent. We here this argument all the time, that big companies pay top employees vast amounts of dough as a means of keeping and attracting the top "talent". Why doesn't this apply in engineering? heck it should apply in any job... you want the best, pay the best. simple.

Any Engineers looking for good pay, job prospects and respect should learn German, simple as that. Currently need 80,000 new engineers and there are so few studying the required amount will only increase. Also every other tit cant call themselves a "waste water management engineer" (that'd make you the poo pipe unblocker then would it mate?) so its still a respected thing to do

Very true and also very, very frustrating. Engineers are held in the same light as Doctors in Germany. People who fix fridges are called "engineers" over here.

[Caractacus]

richb77 said:

Without the likes of you pushing the boundaries of technology man kind would stagnate.

^^^ This, exactly.

An utterly brilliant project, & I wish them all the very best!!! £75.00 heading their way from me right now.

[robinessex]

The BBC calls anyone who 'does something with their hands' or fixes something mechanical/electrical, Engineers. Watched a programme on BBC2 last week re Jumbo Jet overhauls in Cardiff. Apparently, ALL the guys working on it were Engineers, just like the guys who fix broken railway tracks.