Soon, rocket powered Brit car to be tested for 1,000mph speed
March 7th, 2011 - 3:00 pm ICT by ANILondon, Mar 7 (ANI): The UK is soon to if a rocket powered British car can clock speeds of over 1,000mph.
Producing 27,000lb of thrust, the hybrid Falcon motor will be the largest rocket to be ignited in the UK for 20 years.
The team behind the project believes this trio of power units could secure the absolute land speed record for Britain for many years to come.
“We are creating the ultimate car; we’re going where no-one has gone before,” BBC News quoted Richard Noble, the Bloodhound project director, as saying.
The locations considered for the rocket test include places with historic connections to the land speed record-places such as Pendine in West Wales where several records were set in the 1920s, and at Shoeburyness in eastern England where the engines for the current record holder, the Thrust SSC vehicle, were tested.
Bloodhound’s 45cm-wide, 3.6m-long (18in by 12ft) rocket will be British designed and built.
It will burn a mixture of solid propellant (HTPB, or hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene) and liquid oxidiser (high-test peroxide, HTP) for 20 seconds.
The rocket is being developed by the Falcon Project Ltd, a specialist rocketry company based in Manchester and led by self-trained rocketeer Daniel Jubb.
“We’ve done 10 firings to date of our six-inch model - that was in the Mojave Desert in California. We’ve also done one on the 18-inch Bloodhound model, but it was pressure-fed; it wasn’t done using our new pump and that’s the point about this upcoming test,” said Jubb. (ANI)
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