The 'Bloodhound' supercar aiming to break the land speed record - BBC News
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2019
- The Bloodhound is half race car and half space ship, and a team from the UK are hoping it will eventually be the world's fastest car.
It clocked 501mph on Wednesday, during a series of tests in South Africa. But it is still at least a year off attempting to break the land speed record of 763mph (1,228km/h).
And the British-built straight-line racer is designed to be capable, ultimately, of reaching 1,000mph.
The BBC met Bloodhound's driver, RAF pilot Andy Green, to find out how the car works and what driving it feels like.
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“Where’s the cigar lighter?”
Andy Green: “It’s around the back!”
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Brings back memories of THRUST SSC. The highs and lows were all part of building a fantastic car and team members. Andy is the best man for the job calm and committed with the skills to pull it off. No doubt, great men with skills to build the perfect car to get the record. Go team. You can do it. Dee 🍀🍀🍀🍀
That’s not a car .. that a jet without wings
So it’s a car
Rob Str it’s boring as fuck too!
a car is defined as a land based vehicle that is fully operated by the driver, so by definition, it is a car.
@@0cs025 so a tank is also a car ?
@@haanpham4667 why wouldn't it be?
Imagine it hitting a bump
Off to the Moon we go. WEEEEEEEEEEE
Shit son, you’ll be flying like a bullet.
Ah no worries he will be able to find a runway and land safely xD
or a solid rock. just the only one laying around there
@@ohhimark5781 he will just desintegrate at that point
I'm just about old enough to remember Donald Campbell in Bluebird K7 on Coniston Water and since those days, when I could still wear short trousers without ridicule, I have been fascinated by Land and Water Speed Records. I remember following Thrust SSC and watching it break the LSR in 1997. Heady stuff. Glad to see Bloodhound is back on track (literally and figuratively) and all kudos to these guys for pushing the envelope of technology to achieve greatness once again.
Ian Gault 👍
It's weird there are many people who don't know what's the purpose of this marvellous piece of engineering. It isn't your road-legal, commercial car that you can drive on Autobahns. Nope. It's a car shaped like a jet with minimum aerodynamics so it doesn't lift. Why the shape? Just so it doesn't take off. It's shaped like a pencil and a thing like this with normal car shape will literally kill thw the driver and explode the chassis. This car is built for land speed records, to achieve new heights in science and help students learn and get inspired by that. Lots of people are bashing the driver. Well, he is Andy Green, wing commander of British RAF and he did land speed tests before. As of land speed record history, it's not the first time that's happening. More than 20 years ago, we had Thrust SSC that successfully achieved near-Mach 1 speed. This though, will do plenty of tests and speed runs till 2021, when it will embark on the it's 1000-mph goal which is truly going to be amazing and the only land vehicle that could achieve Mach 1 speeds.
(Sorry for my bad English).
Edit: Some might also ask why this car is running in desert without any tyres. If they try it on a road or a runway, horrible stuff can happen. Jessi Combs accident is one example. Also a tyre can't tolerate same amount of forces and power as this car aims. These are aluminium wheels.
Your English is great don't apologise.
The car that killed Jessi Combs was a death trap. It’s literally a plane with wheels attached to it and its wings removed. The cockpit of planes are not designed to survived crashes of any sort. That’s why jet fighters use ejections seats and not some carbon fiber composite cockpit specifically designed to survive crashes like F1 cars. So it’s not a surprise she died when she crashed. Bloodhound, meanwhile, the cockpit is designed to survive a crash at 1000 mph so that the driver can hopefully survive if he crashes.
Also Andy Green is the one who drove Thrust SSC to break the Land Speed Record and also break the Sound Barrier.
@@johnmiller6274 It was also originally made in 1957 so was 69 years old.
Shahmir Khan one mistake, the thrust SSC 20-years ago did break the sound barrier and is the only land speed record car to officially break Mach 1.
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up! 👍👍👍👍👍
It's good to see the Anglo - South African relations come into effect to further develop our knowledge in the field of physical sciences.
Why is Richard Hammond not driving this?
Because he'd crash it.
Cause of Jeremy Clarkson
Because he’d want to do a hill climb
We're waiting on it guys. Very best of luck!
After watching the animated movie "Redline" i know now how freaking fast they were going and how fast his car is even for a Trans Am, damn.
I remember winning a competition in year 6 to have my name etched on the back wing
Fantastic project! Go Bloodhound!! 🇬🇧
under development since 2008. 0 results to even hit close to the record speed :D
"The most high powered... jet engine in the history of military aviation"
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Good luck chaps. I remember keeping a keen interest in 1997 with the 763mph record, and it will be a lot more interesting to you trying for 1000mph.
Me in a silly goody mood with a big ramp jump at the end of the track
Where’s the radio though?
Looking into purchasing a vehicle like this, do they come with blue tooth compatibility? parking assist?
It doesn’t matter what anyone calls it. If the independent verifier, the FIA, is satisfied that it is a car, then it is a car.
It has 4 wheels, that is literally the only qualification for it to be a car in land speed racing.
Come to South Africa 🇿🇦, we're waiting
Lol it's basically just a fighter jet with no wings
Stupenda 👍
Multi Millionaires: We are going to limit your water supply in the summer for the planet
Also Multi-Millionaires:
This should have more coverage on the BBC! 👍👍
Amazing machine and British built 😊🏴🇬🇧
The rocket engine is Norwegian designed and built.
Ian McGreevy I must be wrong haha oh well 😊
I agree with your sentiment ! Cheers
@@user-ky6vw5up9m welcome anytime ☺️
135,000 HP 🤯
My father's mate made the wheels for this weapon. I remember my dad taking me to a back street engineering workshop in Coventry and the wheels being turned on a floor lathe.. from 1 ton of aluminium block, some tool 2 weeks to cut others a week
what weapon ?
Reminds me of the days when I used to drive 750mph when my girl tells me she's home alone.
Just make sure theres no wind. Good luck.
Imagine putting a rear wing on upside-down
One of the true remaining sports, no in your face advertising. Wishing you well.
That's sick
that’s not a car that’s a plane on wheels lol
And now it sits in a museum...
It looks like a scene straight out of Tatooine.
That is not a car. That is a fighter jet and they forgot to attach the wings.
Unbelieveable
What did I just watched?
Supercar!? THATS A FREAKING ROCKET
Does it have cruise control?
It’s like they built the bonus car from the Simpson’s hit and run
Lol nice one
Not a car, just a wingless jet.
I’m just dubious they will get to 1000mph with this car.
The land speed record has never been jumped up by that much (percentage-wise) Probably in the 900mph range- which is badass
Very very sweet
Impressive!!!!!
It is 2021 and they have not broken the record yet!? what's with the delays
Thanks Auntie Beeb for finally recognizing this team effort.
Why the change from blue to white paint?
Barret sat on top of tooth pick with a rocket straped to it did 739 Mph in 1979
where,s the cup holder
😂😂
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80,000 dollar car and it aint even got a cupholder
Guess the reference
tony sales Found the American 😂
@@Castdeath I live in Essex. UK
What's the Doug score?
What ever happened to the bloodhound ssc?
The purpose of this car us to get children interested in the STEM subjects. This has already been going on for some years in schools the UK and in the attempt-location in South Africa.
*germans when they see stripy lines:*
I own a car that has a top speed of 180 mph (289 KPH) and you couldn't give me a million dollars to drive this car at 180 mph. I've had it up to 120 and things started going really fast. After having a Charmin moment I let off the gas. When I was young and stupid, I would have driven the thing to the limit, but when you get older you realize how fragile life is.
Captain America I had my BMW up off the clock. It's limited to 155, I had the clock saying 160, which probably would have been around 153 or 154 miles per hour. The trouble is though, trying to do it is difficult because I did it on the German autobahn where there is no speed limit, but cars keep pulling out in front of you so you have to do it on a quiet stretch of Road.
Had a crash with my own little cheap motorcycle last year, but for someday, one day, 300kmh on a motorcycle, rental, is on the bucket list. Not terribly important but. If I ever feel there's nothing to do anymore. My dream motorcycle is a triumph street triple r though. Did 180on mine, 190_200on another 220in a car. Motorcycles feel way faster and terrifying. And fun. Maybe it's the same. Though the real fun is curves anyway. I guess the sensation of the heightened risk of death never wears off, but speed does rather quickly, acceleration less so, and acceleration and speed in curves always stays awesome
Image hitting an invisibal wall and The speed drops with 600mph
The balls they have to drive these cars
The G force is immensely killer
Frightens me to death. One bump and.....
this isnt a car, its a land based fighter jet
Imagine it was in a city
By the time this thing hits 1000mph we will all probably be living in space! I'm done waiting. I'm starting to think this is all one big bullshit joke
Well, too bad for you. Some things do not happen overnight.
Speed kills! I'm thinking of a vehicle which will travel from one place to another in a second using teleportation.
(Gr Britain Fri 15 Nov 2019 1835)
Different Saturner
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.
Jeremy Clarkson
@@thestig7603 Thank you, liked your comment. It's the same, other sides of a coin! That sudden becoming stationary comes from speed as well. Somehow people get killed.
(Mon 13 Jan 2020 1902)
Mad Max 2020
ALUMIN EEE UM .... (Alumin um)
Never could get the Phonetics there
That's because, in the US the spelling and pronunciation of aluminium was changed for the most American of reasons - marketing and money. It was, at the time, the most expensive metal in the world so the pronunciation was changed to make it sound more like platinum to potential buyers. The rest of the world stayed with the original spelling.
because it's spelt aluminium in the UK, and pretty much everywhere except the USA and Canada
Are these still going on?
Yes. Actually the girl "pilot" got killed.
I don't se the reason of putting a human inside a missile...may be putting a human inside allows them to call it car.
Useless invention
@@waterblading her "car" was horribly built, they just took an old military airplane, removed the wings and welded some tires on it, the bloodhound car has been built from the ground up with one purpose, to drive on land. you cant compare the two
@@waterblading The 'girl' was Jessi Combs. By your logic why climb a mountain? Why go to the Moon? Why sail over the horizon? The answer is simply because we can and therefore we will, this how man advances itself.
@@qasimmir7117 nope
All those you listed had a purpose and an innovation. This miss ill le did not bring anything to the world. There are better missiles and no need to blow a human inside a missile.
Absolutely no benefit to the world. Is much better a high speed train that actually is used for transportation.
This missile does nothing by calling it car. Because never would be used as a car.
There are flying cars now that actually are flying cars and flying boards and stuff. But this missile is a missile. Nothing better than real missile
Waterblade LLC We don’t climb mountains to benefit mankind, the beneficial factor is just a bonus. So what if there’s no benefit of making a land ‘miss ill le?’ They do it for fun, they do it for Britain and the hell of it. Why is that such a hard concept to understand?
I just want to know how to drive it
With its added rocket-boosters, what is the total expected thrust-force of Bloodhound ???
Kareem Salessi close to 60,000 llbs of thrust. 150,000 horsepower.. 0 to 1000 miles per hour in under 25 seconds.
@@RB747domme 60+150 ???
Doesn't Britain already hold the land speed record
What?
Yes Simon we do,.
Since 1983 by the same team leader as this attempt.
BTW The record is held by the team’s name, not by any country, if you look at the official FIA records.
What’s the difference between this and Wile E. Coyote on a Saturn V rocket?
This is the fastest (Land Vehicle) NOT a car, this is just a huge Jet Engine strapped to a frame with some wheels
why is this thing not radio controlled so no driver needed
I would make this remote controlled, just in case something goes wrong...
What about an sr71 engine
But what about building a high speed railway to Birmingham?
This is a weird way of saying big thruster attached to a big dragster
I feel like at this point they should just be fully autonomous... no need for a stering wheel...
No cup holder?
Crazy to think the record is now 6,599mph. Mach 8.6
Um.. we’re talking about the land speed record right? Where on Earth did you whip that number out bro you sure you didn’t miss a decimal point?💀
@@Miftahul_786 no last year the us airforce successful made a new land speed rail record or a reusable sled of mach 8.5 ua-cam.com/video/3qeoH_8jQ5E/v-deo.html
@lohman15 Couple of points.
The Land Speed Record is given to the person driving the machine, not the machine itself. Also, the Land Speed Record is a recognised title that, as with any world record, certain rules have to be followed to qualify for the title. The vehicle must be a wheeled vehicle (so rocket sleds are out) and has to be able to do a run in each direction within an hour.
For example, the Large Hadron Collider is firing particles around its loop at near light speed, but despite being on land, it wouldn't meet the criteria for setting a lsr. Andy Green is the record holder. Thrust SSC is just the machine he used to take the record.
I would like to see how it goes through a ramp..😄
Pretty sure it would end up on the moon lol.
Reference to an article from the Lyncean Group Website
"So, how flat is Hakskeen Pan and how much does it matter to a land speed record car traveling at 1,000 mph (1,609 kph)? The Cape Town, South Africa, survey company Lloyd & Hill surveyed the entire 16 km by 500 meter wide track surface (an area of about 8 million square meters) measuring the elevation in each square meter to an accuracy of 10 mm (0.39 in) or less. Using laser-scanning technology to collect data, and some considerable computing resources, Lloyd & Hill reduced four billion laser measurements into a 3-dimensional surface map of Hakskeen Pan. Key findings were:
1. Hakskeen Pan has a very gentle slope from north to south: dropping 300 mm in 16 km (about one foot in 10 miles)
2. Across the whole surface, the biggest ‘bumps’ and ‘dips’ are less than 50 mm (2 inches) from the average elevation.
3. There’s an 80 mm (3.12 in) ‘step’ that occurs in a distance of 180 m (590 ft) running across the Pan, just over 9 km from the northern end of the track, and just where the car will be travelling at 1,000 mph."
The story here is; How is it possible that this location on earth is as flat as it has been confirmed to be using laser surveying by the Lloyd & Hill survey company when the mainstream "science" community says we are on a ball with a drop in elevation of 8 inches times the distance squared ?
Academia states the Earth has a radius of approximately 3965 miles. Using the Pythagorean theorem, that calculates to an average curvature of 7.98 inches per mile or approximately 8 inches per mile (squared) so when that formula is applied over 9 miles, I think it would look like this: 9 x 9 x 8 = 648 inches or a 12 foot drop in elevation making it virtually impossible to view the Bloodhound land speed car after only four miles heading away from the starting location.
John Wahlstrom
Chilliwack British Columbia
Canada
Simple answer. When they talk about it being "flat", they are talking about it's variation compared to the theoretical "perfect" curve of the earth.
Even simpler answer. The world is fecking ROUND, you dingbat!!!!
Good evening Christopher your ignorance of the significance of the laser survey data collected shines in your inability to respond to an argument in any other manner than by attempted ridicule.
The “theoretical perfect curve” you suggest the shape of earth is, was foundational to Eratosthenes who used math in his theory to calculate the circumference of earth 2000 years ago. 4 billion laser survey data points collected by the Lloyd and Hill survey company on the Hakskeen Pan proves a drop in elevation of 12 inches over ten miles.
If math proves the shape of earth is a globe then using the same mathematical formula Eratosthenes used, the “theoretical perfect curve” appears, which is contrary to the results of the laser survey data.
Jet car this year and rocket car next year.
They’re doing high speed testing this year so only need the jet engine. For the 1000mph record they will use both together to thrust bloodhound up to 1000 mph!
@@proffesionalretard That's a most impressive land speed record. Then maybe we can Tesla electric rocket train mass transit in the future faster than commercial jets which usually cruise at 560 mph. The land based mass transit system like this is city center to city center service with small commute times and layovers rare. They have this in other countries like Germany, Japan, France, and China. China is said to be building the fastest bullet train topping out at over 300 mph though it's not Elon Musks great American idea of Hyper Loop One mass transit. I hope they bring Rocket Car to the Bonneville Flats in Utah. Hell I wish our country would invest serious money and work into infrastructure to modernize as to truly MAGA, but it's not going to really happen.
Trust me...Jet engine kept inside
put the wings, and this thing will fly.
xxx bbb The plan is to stay on the ground, hence why it’s called land speed record.
Then it will fail the attempt.
Gostei do the bloodhound
But can you pull the E Brake and make it Drift ??
Sometimes I'm very proud to be British. Not often of late.
Where is noble , he is the one who got this going?
How can i park it near restourant , bar?
Сергей Некрасов lol 😂
Clearly humans are getting out of control 😂
So, did they do it>??
"Lack of funds prevented the fitting of the Nammo rocket in 2020, and combined with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, this meant the opportunity to run the vehicle in 2021 was lost. In January 2021, Warhurst said the vehicle was up for sale and it was reported that the team had moved on to other projects."
I thought they were going to do this in 2014
They will do it when they feel like it.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
I wish to see Jeremy Clarkson drive and review this car
Wouldn't something like one or even 2 szr1 engines be better they were made to go mach 3
It's not just the engines, it's a lot of things that will determine the speed of the vehicle. Otherwise, we would strap a rocket booster on and it would go at mach 30+
It looks like a plane it’s whatever you call it it’s a car or a plane
That is not a car! That's a missile!
Hense why its called Bloodhound. Named after the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile.
how this shit is still going? over 12 years in build and 0 results
We have gone over 1.000 kph.
it start off as 1000 mph then the small print 500mph
They're still aiming for 1000mph. Currently they're running a test program and ramping up the speed bit by bit, to understand the aerodynamics of the car, the handling at high speeds, and where things could potentially go wrong when they do try for 1000mph.
As this is a one-off car, it's basically a prototype, so it's very important to carry out thorough and careful testing before aiming for its top speed.
They did similar test programs with Thrust 2 and Thrust SSC in the 80s and 90s
thanks. it will end driverless i expect. auto driver
@@hywel4605 I suppose it would be possible nowadays to create a control system that could achieve that, but it won't be done on bloodhound, as the rules of the land speed record require a person to be inside and in control of the car
The british want to make sure they are the first to grab any resources found on other planets, two supersonic cars yet damn
Nah, we just don't want to see Johnny Foreigner nab our 40 year unbroken title of land speed record holders.
@@bigal3055 *Liar*
Mars will be depleted of resources when the other countries arrive at it, the british would have taken everything
Not to be rude, but what exactly is the benefit for this? Like it’s never going to be on the streets, so why? Just to get a World record?
Yes, same as the Olympics only cheaper.
@Pierre cim What can this technology be used for? can you give examples?
Exactly, just to get the record. What's wrong with that?