RE: Build Starts For BLOODHOUND SSC
Tuesday 8th February 2011
The BLOODHOUND gang (not the rap group) has finally started physically building its 1000mph land speed record challenger, BLOODHOUND SSC.
The steel-lattice rear chassis not only has to contain 47,000lbs of combined thrust (equivalent to an epic 133,000hp) from the car's Eurojet EJ200 jet and Falcon Project hybrid rocket, it must also cope with 30-tonne suspension loadings, air pressures on the bodywork of up to 13 tonnes per square metre and substantial additional loads generated by the tail fin, air brakes and parachutes.
Build Starts For BLOODHOUND SSC
The 1000mph land speed record car is finally under construction
With the team having squeezed the equivalent of 36 years-worth of work into just 36 months during the initial design phase, work has now started on BLOODHOUND SSC's primary structure (well, 90 per cent of it, anyway).
BLOODHOUND's chief engineer, Mark Chapman, handed over the first technical drawings to Hampson (the aerospace fuselage specialist tasked with buildng BLOODHOUND's body) last Friday (4th Feb), so work fabricating the rear chassis can begin this week.
It's clearly a fair old challenge, but the BLOODHOUND team are up for it. "After three years of working on a virtual car, Hampson, Cosworth, ACG and our other technical partners are helping us make it a reality at last," says Chapman. "It's a great moment for a team which has invested the equivalent of thirty years getting the programme to this stage."
With construction now underway, the aim is to have BLOODHOUND SSC ready for UK runway trials in spring 2012, ahead of the start of high-speed runs in South Africa and the attempt on a new World Land Speed Record in late 2012 – 2013.
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Discussion
"36 years-worth of work into just 36 months" is that just marketing garble for saying that they had 10 people working on the project?
I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Whilst 1000mph on land is a milestone and there is no doubting is a great technical achievement, there is no disputing the courage of the driver /pilot, id hardly call a jet engine on wheels a car.There was a time when these things had piston engines and still resembled a race car,what is the piston engine record at the moment does anyone know ?
In careful economic times, it's great that this project is still moving forward (ahem).
List of speed records here, apparently...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicle_speed...
List of speed records here, apparently...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicle_speed...
Edited by iain1970 on Tuesday 8th February 11:28
BILL PAYER said:
There was a time when these things had piston engines and still resembled a race car,what is the piston engine record at the moment does anyone know ?
wikipedia said:
In 2008 Tom Burkland broke the piston-engined, wheel-driven record for the flying mile, recording a speed of 415.896 mph (669.319 km/h). He drove the Burkland family streamliner powered by two 450+ cu. in. supercharged alcohol-fueled Donovan (aluminum Chrysler) engines (bought second hand), with crankshafts bolted together nose-to-nose.
Insight said:
"36 years-worth of work into just 36 months" is that just marketing garble for saying that they had 10 people working on the project?
I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Not wishing to start an argument, but your NOT an Engineer are you!!I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Engineers ALWAYS "DESIGN" in a safety factor and therefore 110% loading is ALWAYS possible in Engineering terms!
Engineers are fully aware of what a 100% STANDARD MAN/WOMAN DAY entails in terms of work done, and how much productivity can be expected before fatigue sets in. Pushing past that point means they have to sacrifice time elsewhere, like giving up quality family time.
Ever been parachuting??
Would you jump out knowing that it was designed to take only your exact weight and would BREAK if you had an extra helping of apple pie at lunch?
100.001% breaking point say???
Apologies if you feel insulted, not my intention at all, but please don't insult Engineers with incorrect assertions.
A project like this needs all the support it can get, and for incorrect negative comments on a forum whose motto is "Speed Counts" should just not be expected!
ks on that man there must be so much that could go wrong at 1000mph the odds of being killed must rocket. 
Insight said:
"36 years-worth of work into just 36 months" is that just marketing garble for saying that they had 10 people working on the project?
I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Bad maths, bad attitude. I'm surprised you didn't whine about the wheels not looking nice enoughI think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
ralphrj said:
BILL PAYER said:
There was a time when these things had piston engines and still resembled a race car,what is the piston engine record at the moment does anyone know ?
wikipedia said:
In 2008 Tom Burkland broke the piston-engined, wheel-driven record for the flying mile, recording a speed of 415.896 mph (669.319 km/h). He drove the Burkland family streamliner powered by two 450+ cu. in. supercharged alcohol-fueled Donovan (aluminum Chrysler) engines (bought second hand), with crankshafts bolted together nose-to-nose.
VPower said:
Insight said:
"36 years-worth of work into just 36 months" is that just marketing garble for saying that they had 10 people working on the project?
I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Not wishing to start an argument, but your NOT an Engineer are you!!I think it's a great thing they are doing but I really think this sort of bigging themselves up is a little silly, it's like saying they've all been working at 110% - and as they are engineers they'll know that that's impossible (unless they over-engineered themselves in the first place so they aren't very efficient and were them surprised that actually they could do more work than they first predicted).
The car is impressive enough guys, you don't need to make up statistics just to prove it.
Engineers ALWAYS "DESIGN" in a safety factor and therefore 110% loading is ALWAYS possible in Engineering terms!
Engineers are fully aware of what a 100% STANDARD MAN/WOMAN DAY entails in terms of work done, and how much productivity can be expected before fatigue sets in. Pushing past that point means they have to sacrifice time elsewhere, like giving up quality family time.
Ever been parachuting??
Would you jump out knowing that it was designed to take only your exact weight and would BREAK if you had an extra helping of apple pie at lunch?
100.001% breaking point say???
Apologies if you feel insulted, not my intention at all, but please don't insult Engineers with incorrect assertions.
A project like this needs all the support it can get, and for incorrect negative comments on a forum whose motto is "Speed Counts" should just not be expected!
As for the 110% thing, that was a joke. Most engineering is about 500% over engineered, just as it should be and yes I have been parachuting (which by the way is not as much fun as bungee jumping). It just gets me when all those annoying little tikes on X factor go on and give their best performance saying they gave 110% when in reality, mathematically, you can only give 100% of yourself. Apologies for any confusion about that.
My negative comments about the article relate to the marketing wording not the actual car, as mentioned previously, I think its a great project and support it whole heartedly.
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