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Bloodhound SSC - Richard Noble/Andy Green part II! (Read 556 times)

Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 2:50am

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Richard Noble is at it again, again with Wg Cdr Andy Green as driver (current RAF Harrier, former Tornado pilot). No "Thrust" this time (if they'd called Thrust SSC the name Thrust III then maybe this could have been Thrust IV), but the new name "Bloodhound" (it does look a bit like a land base Bloodhound).

The target? 1000mph.

Interesting to read that they cannot use Black Rock desert as they have on the previous two records - a lack of rain since the 1997 record and annual use by speed groups for an annual festival have apparently ruined the surface.

http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

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Reply #1 - Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 4:32am

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I was just about to post this Cry

Three things come to mind;

1. If anyone can bring the whole package together, then it is Richard Noble and he would get another £50 from me for Antinov fuel Cool

2. At least a 1000 mph record would be a definite figure.......no Americans saying, we did back in the 70's, just did not get it ratified Roll Eyes

3. Thrust SSC had Flt Lt Andy Green at the beginning and when the PR opportunity was seem he became a Sqd Ldr, now call me Old Mr Skeptical, but if he pilots/drives the Bloodhound and gets 1000 mph, then Wg Cdr to Air Commodore Grin

Matt

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Reply #2 - Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 8:28am

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expat wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 4:32am:

I was just about to post this Cry

Three things come to mind;

1. If anyone can bring the whole package together, then it is Richard Noble and he would get another £50 from me for Antinov fuel Cool

Even his failed products end up being quite good. Farnborough F1 biz-turboprop? Whatever happened to that? All went quiet for several years after it's launch in the late 90s...

http://www.farnborough-aircraft.com/about_us.asp

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