Thrust SSC needed the combined thrust of two Spey jet engines to break the sound barrier. To go 30 percent faster, Bloodhound SSC will need more power than a single EJ200 can provide—at full ...

The speed of sound fluctuates with altitude and temperature ... a team of engineers is at work on Thrust's successor. The car, Bloodhound SSC, marks a bold attempt to set a new Land Speed Record ...

The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with an attempt to reach 800 mph in October 2017. New funding means the Bloodhound project – which was shown in London ...

It’s the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world ... can lay claim to be the only man to have broken the sound barrier in the air and on land. In 1997, he hit 763 ...

The British-built Bloodhound car is theoretically capable ... The only car ever to go faster than the speed of sound is Thrust SSC, which set the existing land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 ...

The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner ... Green was the first man to break the sound barrier in a car in 1997, when he hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC. This time, he only ...

We've already got a big box of something called "Basotech" (the same sound-absorbing foam that ... and the Nammo hybrid rocket will make Bloodhound SSC the loudest (as well as the fastest) car ...

and becoming the first and only car to break the sound barrier. That record may not stand for much longer, though. A successor, the Bloodhound SSC, has been in the works and makes its first runs ...

In about a year’s time, pilot Andy Green will strap himself into the driver’s seat of the Bloodhound SSC, parked on the ... producing some 185 decibels of sound, making it louder than a ...

The sound barrier had been broken ... As for Green, he's actually planning on beating his own top speed with Bloodhound SSC, another Noble project. But to quote Grandmaster Flash, "first is ...

Given that Bloodhound SSC will speed across the length of a stadium ... is twice the speed of sound.” It is the resulting friction that heats the wheels. Once these issues are solved, the ...

The static test for the BLOODHOUND SSC car’s rocket system will be the ... blast along at almost one and a half times the speed of sound isn’t a simple task. It isn’t like taking a Mustang ...