Bloodhound LSR - 1000mph on land

[kaiserbill]

It appears the first few runs have been done at Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape, South Africa. The track is 20km long.
Richard Green, current land speed record holder, wants to try go through the 1000mph barrier, in the car powered by an EJ-200 as used in the Eurofighter Typhoon.

461mph already achieved in test run.

 

[Hanse]

Who owns the engine?

 

[kaiserbill]

I wondered that too...interesting question.
I suspect it has been loaned to the team by Eurojet perhaps?

 

[Hanse]

It’s an early development engine that was donated by RR. The kick motor is a Nammo H2O2 hybrid. Total thrust is around 45k lbf.

The Aussie Invader V uses a hypergolic rocket of around 60k lbf but I’m not sure of the status of that program.

Heh, reminds me of The Blue Flame.

Craig Breedlove has a paper design for a twin-J79 version of Spirit of America but I doubt that will ever see the light of day.

A shame the single-engine design was never driven to it's potential. It was a beauty.

 

[kaiserbill]

They have now reached 1010km/h, or 628mph, so already one of the fastest cars in history.
They are fairly powering along in this quest.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Bloodhound’s 1,000 mph rocket car being sold for $11 million

It hit 628 miles per hour in a late-2019 test.

www.theverge.com

200,000-horsepower Aussie rocket car takes aim at 1,000 mph in 2022

With the Bloodhound SSC team flat broke, and the North American Eagle destroyed in a tragic fireball in Oregon, Perth's Aussie Invader 5R is planning to take a run at the very elusive 1,000 mph (1,609.3 km/h) mark. In doing so, the team will need to smash the outright land speed record, which has…

newatlas.com

 

[kaiserbill]

Interesting.
I hadn't realised there was competition.
Bloodhound seems derailed by covid travel restrictions that led to finance being finally pulled.

 

[Hanse]

Bloodhound’s 1,000 mph rocket car being sold for $11 million

It hit 628 miles per hour in a late-2019 test.

www.theverge.com

200,000-horsepower Aussie rocket car takes aim at 1,000 mph in 2022

With the Bloodhound SSC team flat broke, and the North American Eagle destroyed in a tragic fireball in Oregon, Perth's Aussie Invader 5R is planning to take a run at the very elusive 1,000 mph (1,609.3 km/h) mark. In doing so, the team will need to smash the outright land speed record, which has…

newatlas.com

The Aussie one reminds me of this: