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Fuel (jet engine): Jet A
Fuel (rocket): H2O2
Length: 13,0 metres
Weight: 5,5 tonnes
(>8,0 tonnes for record run)
Combined power: ±93 000 kW
0-1 010 km/h: 50,0 seconds
01 This is not your average runabout Pan and I was immediately im- Track length: 20 km
in which to pop to the shops... 02 The 05
restricted view from the cockpit. 03 The pressed with the sophistication Return date to SA:
control centre and steering wheel. 04 and professional aura apparent at 10-16 months
The EJ200 jet engine currently propelling every level of this operation. Then
the Bloodhound. 05 Cool, calm and very
collected: the Bloodhound’s pilot, wing again, we are dealing with a pro-
commander Andy Green. 06 How Haks- totype car that will hopefully soon 06
keen Pan looks following a high-speed run. be achieving land speeds that will

be a rst for humankind.
Years ago, we paid the team Tony Parraman, an engineer who
a visit when the strip was being did a stint with the Royal Air Force,
cleared of stones (16 000 tonnes took me through the car, from the
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over 24 km ) by members of the nose tip to the rear wheels.
local community. Fast-forward At the front is a shiny, sharp,
to the end of 2019 and, after all hollow, 3D-printed titanium nose. speeds increase. The team takes commander Andy Green (the
the challenges of this project – There are around 200 pressure this data after each run and com- current land speed record holder
including nearly going bankrupt sensors hidden in tiny holes all pares it with their prediction. If and an ex-RAF pilot) sits in a car-
and the car being cut up and sold over the car, which assist with there is a correlation between the bon- bre monocoque. The shell is

– the team and its new owner, Ian the computational uid dynamics two sets of data with no diversion, thicker than the one on a modern

Warhurst, pulled off a remarkably (CFD) model to calculate what the the team continues testing. F1 car. Electronics and sensitive
successful visit to South Africa. air around the car is doing at var- The front of the car is based equipment are stored in the front
We arrived at the base camp ious speeds. This helps the team on Formula One technology and to keep them away from the heat
next to the “track” on Hakskeen predict how the car will behave as is made up of carbon- bre. Wing generated at the back of the car.

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