About the session
The BLOODHOUND Project is an international education initiative focused on achieving a 1,000 mph (1609 kph) world land speed record. The speaker, who is the BLOODHOUND supersonic car's driver, set the current world land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 kph) in Thrust SSC on the Black Rock Desert in 1997. The speaker brings his experiences of flying fast jets in the Royal Air Force and driving two record-breaking cars to the Engineering Team. His talk explains the cutting-edge computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study that defined the car's shape and the engineering behind BLOODHOUND's three power plants: a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a cluster of NAMMO hybrid rockets and a 650-bhp petrol racing engine used to drive the rocket oxidiser pump. The jet and rocket generate a total of 135,000 equivalent thrust hp, equal to 180 F1 cars. The speaker discusses the key technical challenges of Project BLOODHOUND and the team's preparation in the build-up to setting a new world record in 2016.
