London - Eight years after the manufacturing process supersonic car that is claimed as the fastest car in the world. The car was named the Bloodhound SSC.
A total of 8 thousand people are expected to come to see the appearance of the British vehicles in Canary Wharf, London on Friday and Saturday this week.
Bloodhound SSC began to be created since 1997 with a record speed of 763 miles per hour (1,228 km / h) created by other British car manufacturer, Thrust SSC.
The plan in October next year, Bloodhound will conduct trials in the UK with a target speed of 800 miles per hour. British Royal Air pilots, Andy Green will be the person who first tested the speed of this supersonic car.
As for the greater speed test of 1,000 miles / hour (1,610km / h) will be performed in 2017. Northern Cape in South Africa will be a testing ground Bloodhound SSC.
To reach 1,000mph, the vehicle will need to produce about 21 tonnes of thrust (210kN).
This will come from a Rolls-Royce Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, working in tandem with a hybrid rocket from Nammo of Norway.
The third power unit in Bloodhound is a supercharged Jaguar V8. Its job is to turn the pump that forces liquid oxidiser into the rocket's fuel chamber.
And if there is technical uncertainty hanging over the project right now, then it has to do with the pump system and the rocket.
Reported by the BBC, Friday (25/09/2015), Chief Engineer Bloodhound SSC, Mark Chapman says, "It's very unusual to see Bloodhound exhibited to the public. Usually we only see in the workshop space and the car is ready to race."
The design configuration, with all components present and linked together, has yet to run in anger.
"We're working towards having the UK pump testing development completed by Christmas this year, and for us then to go out to Norway. We want rocket testing well under way in January/February," said Mark Chapman.
Assuming that all goes well, Bloodhound will complete some low-speed drives along the runway at Newquay Cornwall Airport, using just the Eurofighter engine.
This will get the car up to about 200mph (320km/h) and allow engineers to sign off all electrical and software control systems.
It should then all be about South Africa in mid-2016 onwards. The playa lakebed of Hakskeen Pan is the chosen location for the record bid.
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