A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the Bloodhound SSC (SuperSonic Car) vehicle will mount an assault on the land speed record. The vehicle will be run on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2014 and 2015.
Rolls-Royce has also been giving us a huge amount of technical support. Our EJ200 jet engine, manufactured by Rolls-Royce and its EuroJet partners, was designed solely to power the Typhoon aircraft: we are the first people ever to put it in another vehicle, and it's a complex process.
The car is going to be run on the 'Hakskeen Pan track' in South Africa.
With the racing crew using the 'British Network of Earth-observation Satellites' to monitor the track surface.
The British Network of Satellites is supposed to be more accurate than the American Satellites,
as it can monitor land surface heights to better than 1 cm.
Picture of Car and Blurb,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22646346 Just a thought...Would its wheels be driven, or free running?
If free running ...would that be fair?
