RE: Bloodhound SSC - ?250k ONO

[IN51GHT]

dvs_dave said:

IN51GHT said:

The reasons are too numerous to fully cover, but here's an idea of a few.

1. Thrust SSC weighed in at 10.5tonnes, too heavy to accelerate & stop in the distance given.

2. The twin engined configuration meant the works worst steering setup, lesson learnt to have simple, conventional steering.

3. The location of the engines meant that the eflux beat the rear of the car in submission.

4. The severity of the shockwave meant the ground was fluidised, vastly increasing wheel drag, the shockwave is as result of the shape of the car.

5. The car was within 11kph (from memory) of takeoff (or was that Thrust 2, I can't remember off the top of my head.

There we go. Took a fair bit of cajoling but those are are good set of reasons.

Because believe it or not I do have a day job, which again involves breaking speed records.

It's easy to say "oh just do this," or "just do that & it'll be fine", but unless you have the facts, how can you say that from the comfort of your armchair?

[IN51GHT]

Mave said:

dvs_dave said:

Uh huh. I think it’s fair to say that you’re not a solutions guy.

Quite the opposite. But I like to work out what problems I'm trying to fix first.

..and you really don't think the BH team did that???

[mcdjl]

IN51GHT said:

Mave said:

dvs_dave said:

Uh huh. I think it’s fair to say that you’re not a solutions guy.

Quite the opposite. But I like to work out what problems I'm trying to fix first.

..and you really don't think the BH team did that???

I think Mave is in support of the current design.
Don't get me wrong, ideas guys that don't want to hear problems are great but they should know when to get out of the way and let someone else some those problems. Even if it means the solution looking nothing like their idea....

[Mave]

dvs_dave said:

I’m sure you two would make a fine team! I wouldn’t hesitate to have you do whatever it is I’m paying you to do.

TBH I think you'd be better off with some "yes" men :-)

[Mave]

IN51GHT said:

Mave said:

dvs_dave said:

Uh huh. I think it’s fair to say that you’re not a solutions guy.

Quite the opposite. But I like to work out what problems I'm trying to fix first.

..and you really don't think the BH team did that???

Quite clearly my comment was in response to Dvs_dave suggesting I wasn't a "solutions guy".

Edited by Mave on Wednesday 19th December 16:21