In front of 400 spectators and broadcast online-live. Bloodhound Supersonic Car tried hybrid rocket system at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, England, Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Flames coming out of the rocket showed the system worked well. Data analysis has not been completed, but the rocket engine is expected to produce over 30,000 hp.
With the combination of three types of engines, including turbojets and rockets, it is believed, superfast cars capable of racing as fast as a bullet and break the land speed record of 1,610 kilometers per hour (or 1,000 miles per hour).
The trials were held in a large hangar in Cornwall was a defining moment in the land speed record breaking attempts. Although only in the test phase, the event is described as the UK's largest rocket test in the last 20 years.
The rocket system test as a whole for the first time it was done. The team will also test the Cosworth CA2010 F1 engine, the tank of high-test peroxide, specially designed gear box, as well as the Falcon hybrid rocket software.
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| A full scale model of the Bloodhound supersonic car at the Farnborough International Airshow. (Picture from: http://www.cbsnews.com/) |
Tests done before the supersonic car is trying to go with speed 1,600 km per hour and set records as the fastest car, on a dry lake is located in the province of Northern Cape in South Africa next year. If the trial is successful, they will break the record of 1,228 miles per hour were made in 1997.
Forms of hybrid rocket car is an aerodynamic, making it can withstand the pressure when it reached speeds of more than Mach 1.4, faster than a bullet fired from a Magnum 357 pistol.
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| The contender: A British team has already started work on the Bloodhound SSC, the vehicle they hope will break the ThrustSSC's 14-year record. (Picture from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk) |
Rocket car with 13.4 meter long body makes Bloodhound SSC rocket car hybrid largest in Europe. The car is designed and built by a team of British engineers is expected to penetrate the speed of four digits. Until now, the engineers who built the Bloodhound team has never tested the ability of the car as a whole, including the rocket systems.
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| Chief engineer of Bloodhound SSC team, Mark Chapman (Picture from: http://electronbrains.blogspot.com/) |
Chief engineer of Bloodhound SSC team, Mark Chapman said the results obtained in the first test will be very useful. "Whatever we get from Newquay is a success," he said.
Chapman said initial testing of a product typically does not involve the public. "It's also the first time we see this project succeed or fail," he said. "We are very confident this car is capable of working. Worst thing that can happen is that no one goes, but it also tells us that there is a system that does not function as desired."
He said a car and a rocket-powered jet engine could have exploded in the trial, but it was all part of the test development. When all systems are functioning perfectly, they can go on a plan to break the land speed record of 1,600 kilometers per hour at the end of 2013 or 2014.
To achieve equal speeds 150 meters in a flash, the engine-powered 800 brake horsepower (bhp) is installed in the center of the dark blue and orange vehicle. While the Typhoon fighter jet engines mounted at the rear and a Falcon hybrid rocket at the top. A combination of three types of machines capable of generating energy equivalent to that produced 160 Formula 1 cars.
Through these rocket-powered engines, Wing Commander Andy Green, a fighter jet pilot from the Royal Air Force, which was assigned to drive the Bloodhound, hopes to inspire the younger generation. He want a lot of kids who aspire to become scientists and mathematicians after seeing him drive it at speeds 1.4 times the speed of sound. The 50-year-old former Phantom and Tornado pilot holds the record after he drove the Thrust Supersonic car to 1,227 kilometers per hour, in 1997. (Limit the speed of sound is 1,224 Kilometers per hour.)
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| Land speed compare. (Picture from: http://blog.cytalk.com/) |
"Now 15 years later, we run the Bloodhound education program to record and share technology with the younger generation," he said. "It's much bigger than just breaking land speed records."
With Typhoon jet engine and a hybrid rocket, the RAF pilot flying it will rely on the ability to control the Bloodhound, which is more like a fighter jet than a car. "All of these technologies have developed our own," he said. "We can share it all to reach out to the younger generation." *** [AP | BLOODHOUND | DAILYMAIL | TJANDRA DEWI | KORAN TEMPO 4015]
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