The Bloodhound LSR (LSR standing for "Land Speed Record") is a crazy British project built to break the world land speed record. The Bloodhound was built in Bristol, England, and has been tested on a special racetrack in South Africa. Ron Ayers (who is also the Chief Aerodynamicist) and Mark Chapman (who is the Chief Engineer) together designed the Bloodhound with additional help from the Swansea University.

They have designed the car as safe and stable as possible as it is meant to pierce through the sound barrier and travel through the resulting shockwave. Currently, the project is on ice due to a lack of funding and the negative impact of Covid-19. Here are the most stunning facts about the Bloodhound LSR.

8 Top Speed Goal - 1,000 Miles Per Hour

The current ground speed record is 760 miles per hour set back in 1997. The Bloodhound LSR is not only seeking to break that record, it is seeking to smash that record by pushing itself all the way up to 1,000 miles per hour.

That is a crazy dizzying speed. Even commercial aircraft don't fly that fast. In fact, the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner's top speed is only some 594 miles per hour while the giant of the skies the Airbus A380 can get up to 675 miles per hour.

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7 Reached 628 Miles Per Hour In Tests

Even in its last test it managed to attain the speed of some 628 miles per hour - just breaking the 1,000km/h barrier. While that is still far off of their intended goal, it still lands the Bloodhound LSR as one of the top ten fastest cars in history.

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The 628 miles per hour places it among only seven cars that have gone faster than 600 miles per hour.

6 Acceleration And Deceleration

The Bloodhound LSR is designed to shoot itself up to 800 mph in only 38 seconds before it starts decelerating. It will need its custom monopropellant rocket to be replaced by a hybrid rocket to reach 1,000 mph.

At 800 mph its air brakes are designed to first kick in to start decelerating the vehicle before a parachute deploys at around 650 mph and then finally at around 200 mph the disc brakes can be used. The g-forces on the driver at these speeds are considerable. The g-force the driver would experience while accelerating will be -2.5 g and decelerating would be up to 3 g (that is three times his body weight).

5 The Driver Is The Current Record Holder

The driver of the Bloodhound LSR is Anthony Green. It was he who reset the last world speed record back in 1997 - twice. Anthony Green managed to attain speeds of 713 mph and then 760MPH in the ThrustSSC.

Now, Anthony Green is the driver working for the Bloodhound project and is seeking to break his own record once again, some 24 years later.

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4 Uses A Eurofighter Typhoon Jet Engine

The Bloodhound LSR is powered by the powerful Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine. The Eurofighter is an advanced fourth-generation European air superiority fighter jet that is the main fight jet in the British, German, Italian, and Spanish air forces and is known for its maneuverability and skill in dogfighting.

In fact, three prototype Eurojet EJ200 jet engines developed for the Eurofighter were destined for the museum before they were loaned to the Bloodhound LSR.

3 It Still Needs Another Engine

In addition to its Eurojet EJ200 jet engine, it needs its existing monopropellant rocket designed by Nammo to be replaced by a hybrid rocket from Nammo. In fact, the Bloodhound uses three engines; the Eurofighter jet engine, the monopropellant rocket, and a Jaguar supercharged V-8.

The Jaguar supercharged V-8 is used as an auxiliary unit to drive the oxidizer pump for the rocket. Nammo is a Norwegian government-owned military equipment company specializing in missiles, ammunition, explosives, rocket engines, and propulsion systems.

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2 The Wheels Weigh 95kg

There are two interesting trivia about its solid aluminum wheels. One is that they weigh a whopping 95kg (one would be advised to bend one's knees and straighten one's back before lifting)!

The other stunning fact is that once at full speed the wheels are turning at a mind-bending 10,200 RPM. That works out to a dizzying 170 revolutions per second!

1 Is Currently Up For Sale

Throughout its development, the project has faced funding difficulties. It's just not easy designing a car to not only beat the world record, but smash it. Back in 2018, the project was rescued by Yorkshire entrepreneur Ian Warhurst who stepped in to save the project from being sold off.

But once again with difficulties made worse by Covid-19, the Bloodhound is again out of cash and up for sale. Time will tell if the Bloodhound gets another lucky break and secures the final round of financing it needs to finish the project. Or if it will languish and eventually just wind up in a museum without ever breaking the world record.

In summary, if you have a few million dollars lying idle somewhere, maybe you could be the one to enable this impressive project to finally reach 1,000 miles per hour.

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