What is it like to travel at supersonic speeds/1000mph?
Mach 1.4 is at the outset an incredibly demanding programme, the more so because it is 40% faster than the ThrustSSC record. In short we don’t know how much more difficult it will turn out to be because there is no experience. Mach 1 was an incredible achievement and an iconic one because it was judged impossible – once we get to grips with operating the BLOODHOUND SSC, we’ll all be able to make a judgement. My guess is that it will turn out to be a lot harder – and the decision making in years 2010 and 2011 will be very difficult indeed – but that’s pioneering for you. We are going to find out the hard way ……. R&D BLOODHOUND is going to be very different to ThrustSSC. With ThrustSSC we were restricted to 30-year-old prime technology and we seldom had budgets to create new solutions. Our innovation had to be very simple and practical. With BLOODHOUND we have the objective of creating an iconic project and that means using the most advanced technology available – otherwise we are not in
