Bloodhound LSR Thread As Requested...

[Snifflytooth]

Talk about 6 degrees of separation!

I'm the Downie girls 'step dad' (ask your daughter) and work at Rolls Royce!

Fantastic thread and pics, keep it up

[fatbutt]

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

[glazbagun]

davepoth said:

4.1 lactating cows. Now there's a statistic.

That's what I was thinking! The whole 1000MPH project! Why don't we just tax beef and enjoy a massive reduction in fuel duty & VED!

[ecurie]

fatbutt said:

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

I think it goes much further than patriotism.
I'm not British but still I'm in awe of the people working on it and their skills.

[williredale]

Bookmarked.

[RosscoPCole]

RosscoPCole said:

Maybe we should have A Bloodhound SSC Awesome Images thread.

Thank you. Amazing project that has engineering that I find difficult to comprehend.
Why are they doing it? Because they can!

[Mave]

Those big u shaped hoops are lovely :-) what material are they? What sort of weight?

[spaximus]

Voldermort will not be unique in the country, as many will read a headline and completly miss the reasons why. As a country the UK has given the world many things that have changed the lives of ordinary people. Some of these people would have said "why" in the past. But others have had the vision to ignore those who would stop these ideas going forward and to make then sucesses. Against the wishes of those who would celebrate ordinary and catagorise those who do extraordinary as wasteful, self interested irrelevant and have gone on to improve life.
When people said "why map the DNA" ? "Why create test tube babies"? the visonaries plough their own furrow until the thinking of others catches up.

This project is one of those. It will inspire people, look at insights journey from a non academic background,how many young people trapped in a home with no vision, no drive, will see this and think I want to be a bigger part of the world and change?

To prove to the world that the UK is a world beater at anything is a great thing. I don't follow football or any sport, but when British teams do well the knock on effect is huge to the people. When this project does what it is designed to do there will be many like me proud to say I belong to this country.

When you see a Spitfire, the Vulcan, Concorde does your spirit not soar? Mine does and it soars with this project that brings together the greatness of the British.

If just a handful of young people come out of this inspired to do something in the future then it is worth every penny.

What is shameful is that the mainstream media will only be intrested in this if A, the driver dies, B they find it a front for child exploitation, C it smashes the record. And that interest will last just one day

[CraigyMc]

Mave said:

Those big u shaped hoops are lovely :-) what material are they? What sort of weight?

Those are the upper chassis ribs.
The stringers that will run the length of the car (attaching all the upper ribs together) are titanium. They aren't all the same size, but it'd be nice to know roughly what they weigh.

I'd also be interested to know if the performance targets change when the overall mass goes up (I think original plan was 6500kg or so, but are currently headed towards about 7700kg)

[Inertiatic]

ecurie said:

fatbutt said:

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

I think it goes much further than patriotism.
I'm not British but still I'm in awe of the people working on it and their skills.

Land speed seem to be aiming for the Thrust SSC record rather than a challenger to Bloodhound

[Bonefish Blues]

Inertiatic said:

ecurie said:

fatbutt said:

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

I think it goes much further than patriotism.
I'm not British but still I'm in awe of the people working on it and their skills.

Land speed seem to be aiming for the Thrust SSC record rather than a challenger to Bloodhound

Clearly a quantum different, but not a bad effort for an Owner/Driver, I'd say.

[Nickyboy]

fatbutt said:

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

So they're taken Mavericks old plane and cut the wings off it

[Silent1]

IN51GHT said:

I think it's £10,000 a year for a 10cm x 10cm SME sponsor logo. A drop in the ocean to PH

Edited by IN51GHT on Friday 22 November 15:48

A drop in the ocean to haymarket maybe but I get the impression that there's not much more spent on this site than when ted owned it.
So I'd say there's not a chance in hell they'll spend £10k on a years sponsorship on a car, you're more likely to have the community raise that, also only a year? I thought that sponsorship on these types of projects was a permanent logo due to the fact they're aiming for a target and once it's achieved they're retired, or are there plans for Andy to use it at Santa pod?

ecurie said:

I think it goes much further than patriotism.
I'm not British but still I'm in awe of the people working on it and their skills.

How very dare you, find something in your country to be proud of, stop stealing our patriotism covering it in chocolate and and receiving pleasure from it

[fatbutt]

Nickyboy said:

So they're taken Mavericks old plane and cut the wings off it

Yep, don't like what they've done at all - feels like cheating. And the whole 'by the British' bit in the text makes it personal.

[Tango13]

Nickyboy said:

fatbutt said:

To me, its an important project - its showing that we, the Brits, can engineer something incredible. We can't do the space thing as its just too damned expensive but we can do speed. Speed is a very British thing and we do it very well.

If you've been following the American version its like night and day. http://landspeed.com/

There's not much these days to make us all proud but the SSC does make me feel a weeny bit patriotic.

So they're taken Mavericks old plane and cut the wings off it

Nah, Maverick had an F-14, that's an F-104 which are much easier to aquire.

To get your hands on an F-104 all you need to do is buy a plot of land in Germany and wait a few days

[DrDeAtH]

[quote=Silent1] once it's achieved they're retired, or are there plans for Andy to use it at Santa pod?

[quote=Silent1]

If they used it at the pod, the barn would look like it did back in the 90's after the first run....

[GOG440]

Tango13 said:

Nah, Maverick had an F-14, that's an F-104 which are much easier to aquire.

To get your hands on an F-104 all you need to do is buy a plot of land in Germany and wait a few days

Is it just me or does that look like a bit of a lash up?

[Tango13]

GOG440 said:

Tango13 said:

Nah, Maverick had an F-14, that's an F-104 which are much easier to aquire.

To get your hands on an F-104 all you need to do is buy a plot of land in Germany and wait a few days

Is it just me or does that look like a bit of a lash up?

Looks like a total lash up to me.

The Americans have lowered and de-winged a fighter jet that didn't have the best safety record as an aircraft with pitch-up and spin issues. Also the Americans are using a single J-79 engine with a maximum thrust of 18,000lb in afterburner while Thrust SSC had a pair of Rolls Royce Spey engines putting out 50,000lbs between them.

The Americans might go supersonic but I very much doubt they'll hit 1000mph.

[DrDeAtH]

GOG440 said:

Is it just me or does that look like a bit of a lash up?

Yup, looks pretty Heath Robinson to me....

Their goals: To break the existing 6 year old record by just 1%
But more importantly.... To break the 1976 American record of 512mph!

Edited by DrDeAtH on Saturday 23 November 19:44

[Mave]

fatbutt said:

Nickyboy said:

So they're taken Mavericks old plane and cut the wings off it

Yep, don't like what they've done at all - feels like cheating. And the whole 'by the British' bit in the text makes it personal.

'cheating' implies as easier route to the record. I really don't think their approach will bring them any benefit.