Thursday, March 19, 2015

Bloodhound SSC: Meet the fastest car ever made



Dubbed as the Concorde for this invention by its makers, the SSC in Bloodhound SSC stands for supersonic car. If all goes to plan, the expectation is this vehicle will shatter not only the present land speed evidence excluding also the air speed record by beyond 1,000mph (1,600km/h).



So how do you produce something that can achieve these extraordinary speeds? Mark Chapman, chief engineer of the Bloodhound scheme reveals what it takes to produce such a machine. Find out why it requests three engines, and the key problem that took 18 months to solve.