Build Your Own 1000mph Speed Record Car
Bloodhound goes 'open source' - start collecting your DIY guide on PH today...
The team has been committed to an 'open source' approach to the project since its inception, as part of the drive to stir up enthusiasm for science and engineering in young people across Britain. Cutting edge technology projects of this calibre are usually shrouded in secrecy, they say, but the key aspect of the Bloodhound mission is to share the adventure - and all the data - with the biggest audience possible.
It's not quite all the data, actually, so in case you are an agent of a foreign power hoping for insights into the military rocket technology that's going to be strapped to the top of the car - go and do your dirty scheming somewhere else.
Project chief engineer Mark Chapman told us yesterday that the rocket innards, as well as precise details of some of the F1/motorsport technology employed have to be kept under wraps for obvious reasons. So you can download the official spec-sheet here, safe in the knowledge that PH won't be taking the rap for giving the Iranians access to an intercontinental weapons delivery system. (We've been blamed for worse things...)
As well as helping to support the project mission, Mark reckons the open source approach may also serve as a sort of 'peer review' process, whereby interested parties can take a look at the solutions the team has come up with, and perhaps offer useful feedback.
If you're not that interested in the millimetric dimensions of the car, don't worry - look out for another release in the autumn when we've been promised all the CAD drawings for Bloodhound. Meanwhile, we've got a fab new cutaway image to look at.
Part 1 is the steering wheel and is available at the low price of £1.99
Oh, and will the fuel be provided in parts as with the rest of the 'kit'?
Part 1 is the steering wheel and is available at the low price of £1.99
I just saw that picture and imagined that inevitable Christmas-time advert with the bloke and his kids excitedly receiving the first nondescript bit attached to a magazine, then the next thing you know he's put the whole thing together in the garage, accidentally burning the neighbour's house down while test-firing the rocket whilst the subtitles at the bottom of the screen say Normal RRP £100,000 per issue
Well that screws up the idea of taking it for a quick trip down the shops and back
Re the Rocket - well it was on display at Goodwood fos - cut open for all
to see .. I asked the techie from the project if it worked on the same principle as a JATO and he told me how it worked in a controlable manner.
No rocket science - just a valve on the oxygen flow ..
Oops - looks like I just gave away a big secret
This land speed record Jet thing is a load of tosh in my opinion, if you cant turn it quickly and drive it on a normal road or a race track
then it shouldn't count.
The Veron thing on Top Gear was more like it.
TW>>>
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