Researchers are developing a triple-engined supersonic car that will attempt to break the land speed record in 2011.
According to a report in New Scientist, the car is being developed by a team led by Richard Noble whose Thrust SSC has held the land speed record of 1221 km/h or Mach 1.02 since 1997.
Called the Bloodhound SSC, the car is designed to break the 1600 km/h barrier.
A rocket will boost the car to around 1200 kilometres per hour, (Mach 1) while a Eurofighter jet engine will provide more controllable thrust to coax it up to 1600 km/h (1000 miles per hour).
Finally, the car is equipped with a V12 petrol engine to pump the fuel and provide electrical and hydraulic power to the jet and rocket. Little About
With a good run on a smaller scale, the teams goal now is to build and scale up the rocket engine. Starting around July 2nd, Noble, Adam Baker and fellow team members will begin to test the larger scale hybrid rocket engine.Hoping all goes well as “Scaling up hybrids can be difficult because the fluid flow inside the engine can change significantly as the size of the port in the fuel goes up.”
Although today’s modern jet, and gas/diesel engines are standards of today’s technology. Hybrid rocket engines are not. Richard Noble and team will be attempting to build this hybrid rocket from scratch. Using liquid Hydrogen Peroxide, and solid polyethylene the team will control the burn and thrust of their hybrid by the port size and flow in the rockets plastic. Examiner.com
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