Bloodhound LSR Thread As Requested...

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Blib said:

You HAVE to start a thread on Bloodhound. I have spoken. Make it so.

Now what to do in here.....

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I'll start with some pictures that have been posted before.....

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Voldemort said:

Why?

Dear me old chap, that's not very British is it?

It's for the children, no seriously, it is - http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/education

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WinstonWolf said:

It's a lot bigger than I would have thought

13.5 METERS!!!!

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The boys downstairs have been trial fitting the jet intake today, good news is it fits.



This is the hole where the APU will be fitted through, an F1 engine, used solely for turning H2O2 pump.



It's the small details that will hopefully make the car as reliable as possible

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yonex said:

I'd love to have been at that meeting. We need an effective starter motor, something powerful.......

It's used to power the fuel pump for the rocket, via a reduction gearbox.

Basically we need 750hp to turn the pump to deliver 1000 liters of H2O2 at 1000psi in 20seconds

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I was talking to an F1 driver on the stand at Goodwood FOS this year & joked about how we use the engine from the back of his car a fuel pump he took some convincing!

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aka_kerrly said:

Genuinely fascinating stuff!

I went on a training course near Coventry a while back which finished early giving me enough time to go and have a look around the Coventry transport museum which has a rather good display of land speed record vehicles and information.

Standing two feet away from Thrust 2 and Thrust SSC was mind blowing, how anyone can question WHY is beyond me!!

I'm certainly happier for the UK to invest millions in engineering projects like this than continuing to waste millions on projects like Millennium dome and such like.

Going there with the kids over the xmas break, the museum manager has said we can sit in the LSR cars!!!!!

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98elise said:

Imagine the engineering needed to get a wheel to turn at 1000mph. The forces at the rim will be staggering.

Al done by a man in a shed! it makes me proud to be British

50,000 radial g!!!

Not quite a shed, we have quite a nice workshop now.

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Arlie71 said:

IN51GHT, Thanks for an incredible thread.

Can I ask a bit about yourself ? Whats your background and how did you end up working on Bloodhound ?
I always find it fascinating the different way lives end up, and its inspiring to hear the stories of those lucky (and of course talented) enough to be involved in something so special.

Keep the photos and details coming, ignore Voldemort, he obviously doesn't realise the answer to his question is of course "Speed Matters"

Cheers

Andy :-)

Luck had a BIG part to play.

I left school with no qualifications other than a grade C in physics.
Found myself accidentally doing a 3year engineering GCSE at 6th form in a year, whilst doing maths & english re-takes. Failed the Maths & English (got D's) but got an A* in the engineering.

On the back of this I applied for a craft apprenticeship with GKN Westlands, which I started to really enjoy, then moved onto a technician apprenticeship in the same company as I was taking to it really well.

At the end of the 4 year apprenticeship I was offered a position in GKN Westland design services, where I spent 5 years or so doing detail design, until I went to the NEC for the Motorshow in 1998, where we were given a copy of the Telegraph, which we thought would be useful as the Guinea Pigs needed cleaning out & we had run out of news paper to line the hutch with.

Whilst cleaning out the aforementioned Guinea Pigs the news paper fell open at the jobs page, where Williams F1 were advertising for detail design engineers, I applied, got the job & spent until 2005 there. Started doing detail design, worked my way up to the point where I was doing concept assy design & detailing, at which point I needed to spend some time with the family, so took a job designing railway signalling equipment, until Bloodhound came knocking in 2011.

I'm convinced if I didn't end up at sixth form doing the engineering GSCE I'd be staking shelves in my local supermarket now, I got lucky & accidentally found something I actually enjoyed doing.

Edited by IN51GHT on Friday 22 November 14:58

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yonex said:

Pistonheads "Get your logo on that"

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

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Arlie71 said:

Not that I am stalking you, but what ever happened to your Mini Sofa, did it ever get built ?

Frame is built, will get finished, eventually

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One last pic before the weekend, weekend away from the office rapidly approaching, eldest daughter has a national gymnastics competition.

This is the 'cradle' that will restrain the 1000 litre H2O2 tank, located inside the rear end on the carbon monocoque. Designed to withstand a 9g "arrival" when full. I can't claim this as one of my parts, Johnny submarine designed it.

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Mave said:

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

7076 T6 aluminium. Heaviest is about 16kg from memory.

The entire upper chassis will weigh around 280kg when finished.

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Here we are another week closer to run date.

These will become the cockpit switch panel, one of our REME girls is making up the loom for them.



Pretty obvious what this is, the nose of the car, the To grown tip will be bonded on later.



Or film & graphics guy Stefan Marjoram did this little drawing of the lower chassis build team befor it was bonded & cooked. It's inside the lower sill section on the L/H side.

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tuffer said:

Out of interest, what motors do they use in commercial/military rockets to deliver the H2O2 (or don't they)?

All sorts, could be pressurised feed system or decomposing HTP turbo pump for example.

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amancalledrob said:

Will it be possible to turn up and watch the record run, at all? I'd love to see that thing go

I belive the Northern Cape government are organising a festival to keep spectators entertained whilst we mess about....er I mean run the car.

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Few more images for you to look at.

This is the "Stringer Finger". It transmits the load from the stringer & skin into the flange on the chassis rib.



This is where the EJ200 thrust trunnion fitting will live, the trunnion is made from S155 steel to prevent damage to the aluminium rib.



This is where the EJ200 rear hanger will live, it takes the weight of the rear of the engine.



The fwd lifting bracket for the upper chassis. In the event of an EJ200 needing replacing we'll lift the upper chassis from the car, this is where the fwd lifting strop will go, we simply screw in a steel lifting eye.



Finally, I just like this photo, it shows the cutout on one of the rear suspension bulkheads to clear the damper, looks kind of mirror ball in appearance.

Edited by IN51GHT on Friday 29th November 06:41

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Also, Andy's latest BBC diary - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2512...

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Asterix said:

inman999 said:

IN51GHT, how are the REME guys getting on? Are they adding any value to the project?

As asked mate - how are they getting on?

Absolutely fine, a valued addition to the build team.