1000 MPH for a land car?

[flapjack]

I know this isn't NHRA related, but I thought you might like to check out this:

http://www.wsj.com/video/bloodhound...F8F-45F4-92A2-FFB0B708732C.html?mod=e2fbvideo

 

[none]

Interesting. I haven't heard of a push for new LSR for quite a while. Even if they "only" achieve their 2016 goal, that'd still be mighty impressive!

 

[rckymtn3]

They've been planning it ever since Thrust SSC made it's landmark run.

I think it's going too far personally. With that speed, they'll have to prepare any surface to ensure that there is no variation in flatness. One rise and fall of an inch over 30 feet would be enough to send it skyward. Not to mention a slight breeze would do the same.

I hope they give up on it, because I really don't want to see what I think I'll see.

I personally love the piston driven/wheel driven records anyway. Those things are too cool. That's plenty for me.

 

[flapjack]

Wasn't the Trush SSC featured in the movie Rat Race?

 

[Leebone]

By the way, it's sponsored by "Castrol."

 

[Nobody]

There is also an American contender currently working toward an attempt, though targeting a more "modest" 800 mph. http://www.landspeed.com/
Jessi Combs drove the vehicle a couple years ago, with limited afterburner, to reset some women's land speed marks.

 

[robinjackson]

Read more here:
http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

This is a very substantial project, especially from the science & technology educational aspect, and has now been developing for years.

 

[Toejam]

Is Eric Green gonna drive it?

 

[robinjackson]

Is Eric Green gonna drive it?

Andy Green, yes.

 

[Leebone]

That thing has no front down force and it's skinny and top heavy. It will roll before it reaches 1000 mph. However, they have some of the best engineers working on this. I hope to dear God I'm wrong about it rolling or going airborne.

 

[robinjackson]

That thing has no front down force and it's skinny and top heavy. It will roll before it reaches 1000 mph. However, they have some of the best engineers working on this. I hope to dear God I'm wrong about it rolling or going airborne.

One would hope they know the score. They bring unique expertise to the task, having held the LSR since 1983 and then becoming the first team verifiably to go supersonic on land (Nevada, 1997). If they don't know what they are doing, no one else does. But I'll grant you, it's a scary prospect.

 

[Greggo]

I haven't watched the video but I'm well aware of their project. I just wonder where they might get this accomplished?

 

[robinjackson]

I haven't watched the video but I'm well aware of their project. I just wonder where they might get this accomplished?

Hakskeen Pan, South Africa.

Info here: http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/adventure/desert-race-track/hakskeen-pan

 

[Leebone]

The car weighs a whopping 6 tons. The salt layer at Bonneville isn't thick enough to hold it, from what I read and the conditions have deteriorated at Black Rock due to lack of rain and the burning man thing they do every year.