The RAF's new 1000mph project
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Re Grey 'Ovies......standard issue now....oh and Techies do this new thing where they fuel and kick tyres for a couple of years then go back for further training and appos are no more....the RAF has moved on......
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Shame they couldn't use the original bloodhound and just and 4 wheels to that
ShotOne - there's no need to get defensive.... the RAF link was introduced by our Aussie friend at post #2 who clearly didn't have much of a clue about the Bloodhound project! All the other responses were to Mr CH who thought it was a good idea to introduce some inter-service banter... I don't think anyone involved even begins to claim that it is an "RAF project".
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Bloodhound was never was supersonic in its own length off the launcher.. Seeing one of my relations is one of the leading authorities on the thing and told me it is a myth.. Didn't take much more distance before it was, but I'm sure it was near 400 MPH in that distance. Of course, faster than a Veyron and still accelerating.
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You'd probably be surprised how few outright LSR contenders have actually died during attempts, especially postwar.
Atholl Graham & Glen Leasher in the early '60's are the only 2.
(Pre war Dario Resta, Parry-Thomas, Frank Lockhart, Lee Bible, Bernd Rosemeyer)
A lot of the speed record chasers have died in their pursuit of records
Atholl Graham & Glen Leasher in the early '60's are the only 2.
(Pre war Dario Resta, Parry-Thomas, Frank Lockhart, Lee Bible, Bernd Rosemeyer)
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Speaking as someone who lives in Perth, I don't think Aussie Invader realistically has a chance. It's a bloke in a shed operation compared to Bloodhound who have some serious funding and engineering support. That's not to denigrate their efforts but the Bloodhound mob are operating at a different level.
They have the form of the previous successful attempt so they are not going entirely into the unknown.
Mind you I still wouldn't drive either of them and full credit to anyone who is prepared to strap something like that on and go for it.
They have the form of the previous successful attempt so they are not going entirely into the unknown.
Mind you I still wouldn't drive either of them and full credit to anyone who is prepared to strap something like that on and go for it.
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Silly Stuff.
Prey,
What is the point.
Perhaps someone could do a supersonic pink pig flying backwards off the south coast.
Quick, ring Barnes in Heaven and get him on the drawing board.
What is the point.
Perhaps someone could do a supersonic pink pig flying backwards off the south coast.
Quick, ring Barnes in Heaven and get him on the drawing board.
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"What is the point?" Good question. Let me answer it:
The bloodhound project isn't "just" about going at 1000mph. It aims to give young people an idea what can be achieved through training, teamwork and application. To provide a positive example of the importance of engineering and science. To encourage a "can-do" attitude. To provide an educational programme linked with hundreds of schools running related projects. And to show we can! And it hasn't cost one penny of taxpayers money.
The bloodhound project isn't "just" about going at 1000mph. It aims to give young people an idea what can be achieved through training, teamwork and application. To provide a positive example of the importance of engineering and science. To encourage a "can-do" attitude. To provide an educational programme linked with hundreds of schools running related projects. And to show we can! And it hasn't cost one penny of taxpayers money.
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And here's the man behind it - the current Australian speed record holder at 642mph ...
The REME (I think there are 6 of them) are augmenting 71(IR) Sqn for some of the hands on jobs
Might have been a 'G ' problem. The Bloody was doing Mach 1 in it's own length on launch, around 25 feet if memory serves correctly...or nought to 760mph in around 0.025 of a second...eat your heart out Veryon owners...
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Dizzy Addicott had a project to attempt the land speed record in a Supermarine Swift which had had the wings removed, so the idea of using an aeroplane fuselage isn't new!!
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Yep Aussies are obsolete technology, it is held by Andy Green at 763.035 mph
McGlashan is not claiming to be the World Land Speed Record holder. He certainly is intending to have a good crack at it, though.
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You'd probably be surprised how few outright LSR contenders have actually died during attempts, especially postwar.
Atholl Graham & Glen Leasher in the early '60's are the only 2.
Atholl Graham & Glen Leasher in the early '60's are the only 2.
the right front-wheel bearing seized, pitching the car into a series of rolls that scattered it over four and a half miles of salt.
Well, the North American Eagle looks great (in a photoshop kind of way). Amazing what a lick of paint can do.
As for 'Sonic Wind', gotta love a project headed by a fella called Waldo Stakes.
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The Mach 1 in its own length is a load of b0ll0cks.
. Was doing the RTFS course at Newton where the Bloodhound school was. One of the Blood staff told me that one the naughty little tinker.
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NAE likes to misbehave above 300 MPH, like stay on a straight line. Craig Breedlove's last SOA decided to lift off one wheel and swerve off course at 675 MPH damaging the car in 1996. Its the Water Speed Record that has killed the most record holders, Henry Segrave, John Cobb, Donald Campbell and Lee Taylor.
Blame the Bloody instructors then not me.... Was doing the RTFS course at Newton where the Bloodhound school was. One of the Blood staff told me that one the naughty little tinker.
Craig Breedlove survived a somewhat slower (200mph) crash when the braking 'chute failed:
