Human efforts to break the speed limit never stopped. A group of British team plans to surpass the record of the world's fastest land vehicles, which until now has not been solved, since 13 years ago. This car is called Bloodhound Super Sonic Car (SSC), is targeted to be rising as tight as 1000 miles per hour or about 1600 miles per hour, exceeding the speed of today's fastest vehicle, Thrust SSC, which can be sped up to 763 miles per hour or 1,228 km per hour .
With that speed, Bloodhound and even beat the speed of a bullet fired from the mouth of a 0357 Magnum revolver speed 441 meters per second. "We get a lot of offers from various companies around the world, who want to be a sponsor," said Richard Noble, Director of the record-breaking project, told BBC News.
As a result, more parties who intend to provide financial assistance, rather than Bloodhound ability to promote these companies. Clearly, the major airline companies are also involved in this project.
Dissecting Bloodhound
As quoted from Physorg, Bloodhound machine powered by a combination of the Falcon rocket and an EJ200 jet engine used on the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. Jet engine is capable of producing strong impetus nine tons, while the rocket engine will provide additional impetus by 12 tons. The Bloodhound body is made of a thin mixture. The wheels are made of a mixture of solid aluminum, weighs 97 kg and a diameter of 90 cm. Especially for this wheel, Lockheed Martin, maker of jet F-22 Raptor and F-35, which would make it.
Wheels are an important element, as it is estimated vehicle wheel is a wheel that rotates with the top speed of 170 revolutions per second (about 10,200 rpm). The pressure at the wheel was also estimated at about 150 megapascals. While the jet engine maker in the F-1 car, Cosworth, who recently joined, will be involved in the creation of one power unit that controls the passage of liquid oxidiser in rocket Bloodhound. And Hampson Industries will build the rear of the car.
This record-breaking itself will be held at Hakskeen Pan in northern Cape Province, South Africa. On the track along 20 km and 1.5 km wide, it should not at all found a stone, because it can cause a fatal accident.
Therefore, about 300 local people have been mobilized to clear the track of stones. Bloodhound must perform two tracks for this record. The results of average speed that will be the official pace vehicle. Richard Noble himself is the one who also heads a team of vehicle Thrust SSC in 1987, which until now his record is still unresolved. In fact, in 1983 he himself was driving Thrust 2 record fastest car in the world, beat the speed of Bluebird CN7.
For the sake of his mission this time, Noble brings with it some of the personnel on the mission lawasnya earlier in 1987. They are the Royal Air Force Wing Commander Andy Green as the driver of the vehicle, and Ron Ayres, Head of aerodynamic design. Bloodhound Construction will begin in January next year. The plan, Bloodhound will break a new record speed of cars on Earth, in 2012.
Sources: http://teknologi.vivanews.com/news/read/190447-membedah-calon-mobil-tercepat-sejagad
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