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If you remember the
Bloodhound Supser Sonic Car, you know the team behind the monstrosity is out to make sure the land-speed record remains in British custody for the foreseeable future. Currently, the record sits at 763 miles per hour, set by the ThrustSSD in 1997, but the Bloodhound gang wants to see that number upped to 1,050 mph. On land.
For those of you who are counting, that's Mach 1.4.
The team is already well on its way. It just completed the first test firing of its rocket system, and the get up produces a whopping 14,000 pounds of thrust.
The engine sucks down a liquid peroxide and solid synthetic rubber fuel mix and will work in conjunction with a
Cosworth CA2010
F1 V8 engine to scoot the Boodhound down the salt flats. If that's not cool enough to ice your cucumbers, the whole kit was designed by 28-year-old, self-trained rocket engineer Daniel Jubb.
Look out below for a video of the test run, completed in the safety of a bomb shelter.
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