British researchers are planning to make a car that fast, even faster than a bullet.
As quoted from Reuters, the speed of four-wheeled vehicle that can be 1600 miles per hour it costs around 12 million pounds.
Car “Bloodhound SSC” that, if successfully built, would break the record for the fastest car today that is 400 kilometers per hour. Bloodhound SSC is a name derived from the British supersonic missile in the cold war era.
The experts say that even their car speed can be increased up to 1690 kilometers per hour – that is, faster than a bullet shot from 357 Magnum revolver.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the project is done in secret since 18 months ago at the aircraft hangar in Bristol. The car is the dream of Drayson, a car lover who wants to inspire a new generation of English so interested in being scientists and engineers. English is very, very short-handed for the two sectors.
Bloodhound team plans to complete their projects less than a year. Team plans to have the car built within a year, with the land speed record attempt expected in three years.
The car combines the Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine with a rocket that produces 20 thousand pounds of boost.
“This is an opportunity to do something extraordinary in the field of machinery and to break speed records on land,” said a mathematician and fighter pilot Andy Green. He is the highest speed record holder in the land that is 1228 kilometers per hour in 1997.
Green worked with Richard Noble, who heads the record-breaking attempt was in 1997.
Green was a commander of one of the pilots union at British Air Force (RAF). He will use an accelerator to power the jet engine up to speed of 563 kilometers per hour, after which the speed of light plus the way “solid rocket booster”.
A racing engine V-12 began pumping more than a ton of hydrogen peroxide into a “booster” so that the car within 20 seconds will be sped up to 1660 kilometers per hour.
“It would be uncomfortable. Where I was sitting just below the ‘intake’ jet engine, so it is very noisy, “said the car was Green.
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