BLOODHOUND SSC is a car where SSC stands for Supersonic Car. It is called supersonic because it is designed to go faster than the speed of sound. It is a car because it has four wheels and is under full control of its driver.

Bloodhound SSC | The Fastest Car Ever Made

The main goal of BLOODHOUND SSC is to attain a 1,000 mph(1,609 km/h) World land speed record. It is a pencil-shaped car with jet and rocket powered design to reach this 1,000 mph speed. It has a slender body of approximately 14m length with two front wheels within the body and two rear wheels mounted externally within wheel fairings. It weighs over 7 tonnes and the engines produce more than 135,000 horsepower – more than 6 times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together!

The best thing is that the car is a hybrid version of aircraft and car technology. The front is made from carbon fibre monocoque like in racing car and the back being a metallic framework and panels like an aircraft.

BLOODHOUND SSC consists of 3 engine the first one is EUROJET EJ200 engine, a highly sophisticated military turbofan normally found in the engine bay of a Eurofighter Typhoon.

The second one is Auxiliary power unit which provides essential hydraulic services to the car and drives the rocket oxidiser pump which will supply 800 litres of High Test Peroxide (HTP) to the rocket in just 20 seconds – equivalent to 40 litres (over 9 gallons) – every second.

The third one is Rocket engine the Nammo hybrid rocket will provide a thrust of 123.75kN (27,500lbf). This will be combined with the thrust from the EJ200 jet to generate about 212kN (47,700lbf) – that’s eight times more power than all the cars on a Formula 1 starting grid combined.

The combined BHP produced by the car is 1,35,000 hp.

Each wheel of this car weighs around 95 kg, can spin over 10,000 rpm and can bare a force of 50,000 ‘G’ at the rim.

For the breaking purpose the BLOODHOUND team decided to stop the car in the following way:-

1000 mph: close the throttle – deceleration rate is 3’g’ initially, then falls off rapidly

800 mph: start to deploy the airbrake, gradually increasing its area to try and maintain 3’g’ deceleration through the transonic region (800 down to 650 mph)

Below 600 mph: deploy a ‘chute to increase the deceleration rate back up to 3’g’.

Below 400 mph: deploy a second ‘chute if required.

Below 250 mph: apply the wheel brakes as required to stop at the end of the track, ready for the turn round.

DIMENSIONS

LENGTH 13470 mm

WIDTH 2280 mm

HEIGHT 3000 mm

WHEELBASE 8900 mm

Source: Bloodhound SSC

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