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This is one of those instances in which the word “car†is being used in its loosest form. The only connections between the Bloodhound SSC and your average minivan is that they both have four wheels and a body. But the similarities stop here, and the differences begin. Built specifically to beat the existing land speed record, the UK machine is in fact nothing more than a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, which employs aerobrakes, parachutes and carbon brakes to help it stop. The BBC News takes us behind the scenes with Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Green. The mechanical monster is designed to reach no less than 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kilometers/hour), using a jet engine that is pretty remarkable in size. In addition to breaking the existing record by a large difference, the Bloodhound is also meant to incite some more interest in science and technology on part of the British people. “If we want to live in a high technology low-carbon world !
in the near future, then someone is going to have to build it for us, and that someone needs to be inspired now,†Green said. He also added recently that the construction phase of the machine was going very well, but that the team was at the moment still trying to decide between using symmetrical or asymmetr...
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