In the pipeline Quarter 4 2016
provide a thrust of 30kN (6,000 lbs). This will be combined with the thrust from the EJ200 jet to generate about 212kN (47,700lbs). Just to put it into perspective, all that power will enable Bloodhound to cover four and a half football pitches in 1 second, that's 150 metres in the blink of an eye, considerably faster than a bullet fired from a Magnum 357 and cover its own car length in less than three hundredths of a second. Although Pirtek Bristol has worked directly on the project it has led to spin off work with London University though the fuel lines. The Bloodhound project has connections with 5,000 schools and is hoping to inspire potential engineers in the future. It has provided work for many specialist engineering companies as well as utilising the skills at CFD, Swansea University who did most of the computer design and UE in Bristol who helped design the individual parts. The project is already breaking boundaries and will benefit British industry for years. The project is estimated to cost £19 million but it has a huge rage of sponsors, Rolls Royce, Rolex, Castrol, Parkers, Bott. If you wish to help sponsor the Bloodhound, then visit www.bloodhoundssc.com/donate- join/bloodhound-donators, you could even have your name on the fin for £10. And Pirtek Bristol's contribution? Apart from all the parts and help, they have ensured everything is done as cheaply as possible for the project.
produce more than 135,000 horsepower: Over 110 man years of effort have already been invested in the design, build and manufacture. Bloodhound SSC is, without doubt, the most complicated car ever built. When finished, it will comprise over 3,500 parts (and 22,500 rivets), of which many have been designed and manufactured uniquely for this car. Approximately half the thrust of Bloodhound SSC is provided by a EUROJET EJ200, a highly sophisticated military turbofan normally found in the engine bay of a Eurofighter Typhoon. This uses a Jaguar V8 to start the fuel pump on the 1,000 litre HTP tank. In order to accelerate the car to 1,000mph, each Nammo hybrid rocket will
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