Bloodhound Supersonic Car is Displayed at Downing Street


A replica of Bloodhound Supersonic Car is being displayed at Downing Street on June 24, 2013 in London, England. British Prime Minister David Cameron viewed the full size replica of the car along...

Bloodhound SuperSonic Car test-fires its engines, roasts the lab wall (video)

Bloodhounds SuperSonic Car testfires its engines, roasts the lab wall video

The land-speed record has been in British hands since 1983, but it's never been the motherland's habit to rest on its laurels. Yesterday, in a bomb-proof shelter in Cornwall, the team behind the Bloodhound SSC test-fired its rocket system for the first time, producing a staggering 14,000 pounds of thrust thanks to its liquid peroxide and solid synthetic rubber hybrid engine. Pumping that mix through the V8 of a Formula One car, the team hopes to reach a top seed of 1,050 mph (Mach 1.4), well beyond the 763 mph achieved by ThrustSSD back in 1997. After the break, we've got a short clip of the firing as it happened, which, frankly, makes the Batmobile's flaming jet engine look a little bit mediocre by comparison.

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