The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

[DKT27]

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Formula 1 is seen as the apogee of engineering excellence and automotive power. So it says something that in Bloodhound SSC — the car that, if all goes well, in 2013 will shatter the current land speed record — the Cosworth Formula 1 engine is just the fuel pump.

"We are creating the ultimate car; we're going where no-one has gone before," said Richard Noble, the project director.

The car, which Mr. Noble says takes £10,000 a day just to keep it ticking over, will be powered by not one, but two other engines. The smaller one, the EJ200, is normally found in the British Royal Air Force's Typhoon jet. Its job is to get the 13.4 meter long car up to 350 miles per hour.

That's when the big one kicks in. The big one is the 18-inch diameter, 12-foot-long Falcon rocket, the largest of its kind ever made in the U.K. Its job is to catapult the car through the sound barrier to its maximum speed of 1,050 mph. That is, literally, faster than a speeding bullet.

To get there, the Cosworth CA2010 engine has to inject one ton of fuel into the rocket within 20 seconds. That's why you need an F1 engine as a fuel pump. Cosworth is also providing the rocket control system which will manage the ignition, fuel supply and shutdown of the Falcon rocket. The Northampton-based company is also providing the telemetric system.

The triumvirate of power together form the most powerful land vehicle ever built.

Wing Commander Andy Green will pilot the car as it speeds across the Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, in South Africa in 2013. If successful, Bloodhound will not only shatter the current land speed record — held by Wing Cmdr. Green in Thrust SSC and standing at 763.035 mph — but given the altitude of the Hakskeen Pan, around 3,000 feet, it will also exceed the official air speed record at low altitude (which stands at 994 mph).

Bloodhound is not just about shattering records, says Mr. Noble: "The primary objective of Bloodhound is to inspire the next generation to pursue careers in science and engineering."

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[Atasas]

Holy mother! but that's when money is smaller object, that possible use of it.

off topic, anyone checked Geneva Motor Show 2011 yet?- some good stuff is coming through this year

[majithia23]

damn ....

this is crazy engineering ....

it might be the pinnacle of automobile design and technology ,

but 1.5 tons of fuel turned to ash / smoke in just 22 secs ...!!!! :blink:

i just wonder how many small ( 1000cc ) cars or bike would be able to go for how many kms and for how long with this much amount of fuel ......

lets work out ,

by assumption , if we take the density of fuel to be equal to water , then 1.5 ton or 1500 kg equals 1500 L of fuel or approximately 400 gallons .

if the average that a car does on a gallon is 20 miles , then this much fuel would help the speedometer clock 8000 miles .

( and the average that a car does in states is reported to be at 22 to 23 miles , so increased miles ... and also , oil is lighter than water , so the fuel in gallons would work out to be more when converted from tons .. again --- increased amount of fuel and so increased number of miles clocked ... !!! )

how much is this ?

this much >> travel across all the width of america from washington dc to san francisco . come back . and again go from washington dc to san francisco... 3 trips .

and still you would end up with a full tank ( after covering almost 7500 miles )... !!!! :blink:

second note , we talk of increasing green house effect and vanishing fossil fuels in the near future ... and then this experiment is done at such a magnanimous scale .!

why this hypocrisy ....