Bloodhound SSC

Bloodhound SSC
Logo of the project and image of the vehicle
Overview
Manufacturer	Bloodhound Company Ltd, Didcot
Assembly	Bloodhound Technical Centre, Bristol
Body and chassis
Class	Land speed record vehicle
Powertrain
Engine	Rolls-Royce Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan Nammo HTP hybrid rocket Jaguar Land Rover V8 engine (HTP pump)
Dimensions
Wheelbase	8.9 m (29 ft)
Length	12.9 m (42 ft)
Width	2.5 m (8.2 ft)
Height	3.0 m (9.8 ft)
Kerb weight	6,422 kg (14,158 lb) (fuelled)
Chronology
Predecessor	ThrustSSC

Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic land vehicle currently in development. Its goal is to match or exceed 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h) achieving a new world land speed record. The pencil-shaped car, powered by a jet engine and a rocket engine is designed to reach 1,050 miles per hour (1,690 km/h). It is being developed and built with the intention of breaking the land speed record by 33%, the largest ever margin.

Runway testing of up to 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) was scheduled to take place in early 2016. Bloodhound SSC will then be tested on the Hakskeen Pan in the Mier area of the Northern Cape, South Africa where a track 12 miles (19 km) long, 2 miles (3.2 km) wide has been cleared.

In July 2016, it was reported that Andy Green will attempt to break his own World Land Speed Record with Bloodhound (to 800 mph) in October 2017.

The project was announced on 23 October 2008 at the Science Museum in London by Lord Drayson - then Minister of Science in the UK's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills - who in 2006 first proposed the project to Richard Noble and Andy Green (the two men, between them, have held the land speed record since 1983).

Richard Noble, engineer, adventurer, and former paint salesman, reached 633 mph (1,019 km/h) driving turbojet-powered car named Thrust2 across the Nevada desert in 1983. In 1997, he headed the project to build the ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, an RAF pilot, at 763 mph (1,228 km/h), thereby breaking the sound barrier, a record first for a land vehicle (in compliance with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile rules).