Bloodhound testing

[kiwi belly tank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjkFf26yZNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZQBUt3ST4Q

[kiwi belly tank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JS0mXbjq64

[Stainless1]

Seems to wander a bit 

[manta22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JS0mXbjq64

"How do you slow the world?s fastest car using a parachute?" 

The world?s fastest car??? Uhhhh, no.

[kiwi belly tank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3k8Onl7nZE

[martine]

And today's run...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50267207?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story

[gowing]

It is interesting to read that they are planning on strapping a rocket engine on the car next year (a la Stan Barrett?).
Was that the plan since the inception of the car?

[Lemming Motors]

Shame on the BBC - Donald Campbell's speed of 403mph was set on Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the huge salt pan in central Australia.

It was the last official mark to hold the land speed record with a wheel-driven vehicle. All subsequent records have been set by jet or rocket-powered cars.

Someone check my math but I am pretty sure 409.277, FIA sanctioned, Nov 12 1965 is faster than 403mph unless 4wd doesn't count but I'm pretty sure the clue is in the name there.

[Dynoroom]

It is interesting to read that they are planning on strapping a rocket engine on the car next year (a la Stan Barrett?).
Was that the plan since the inception of the car?

Yes, the car was designed for a rocket & jet engine to be used from the beginning...

[TrickyDicky]

It is interesting to read that they are planning on strapping a rocket engine on the car next year (a la Stan Barrett?).
Was that the plan since the inception of the car?

Yes, the car was designed for a rocket & jet engine to be used from the beginning...

It cannot beat the current outright record with the jet engine alone.

[TrickyDicky]

Shame on the BBC - Donald Campbell's speed of 403mph was set on Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the huge salt pan in central Australia.

It was the last official mark to hold the land speed record with a wheel-driven vehicle. All subsequent records have been set by jet or rocket-powered cars.

Someone check my math but I am pretty sure 409.277, FIA sanctioned, Nov 12 1965 is faster than 403mph unless 4wd doesn't count but I'm pretty sure the clue is in the name there.

The point the BBC are rather clumsily making is that the outright record was 576 mph when Goldenrod set its class record(s). Art Arfons five days previously.

[kiwi belly tank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AboVP68NZDM

[PorkPie]

what you say...it can be read that way and from the historical view it's correct....missing, that since a couple years the wheel driven records are not anymore international records...they are also called, again, world speed records.....
which is right from the fact can't be known by the average Joe......
so the way as BBC is telling it, it's getting a little bit a smell of too much "patriotism".........

Shame on the BBC - Donald Campbell's speed of 403mph was set on Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the huge salt pan in central Australia.

It was the last official mark to hold the land speed record with a wheel-driven vehicle. All subsequent records have been set by jet or rocket-powered cars.

Someone check my math but I am pretty sure 409.277, FIA sanctioned, Nov 12 1965 is faster than 403mph unless 4wd doesn't count but I'm pretty sure the clue is in the name there.

The point the BBC are rather clumsily making is that the outright record was 576 mph when Goldenrod set its class record(s). Art Arfons five days previously.

[maj]

And today's run...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50267207?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story

I hope the directional stability increases with speed   

[racefanwfo]

Bloodhound is not the fastest land speed car that label belongs to THRUST SSC and will stay that way until Bloodhound breaks its record.