Unveiling a new generation of fast car, this will be in a league of its own. Bloodhound SSC, or super-sonic car is designed not just to break the current land speed record of 763 miles an hour but to smash it. Bloodhound's driver was at the wheel the last time the record fell. Making Wing Commander Andy Green, the Royal Airforce fighter pilot, the first man to drive a car faster than the speed of sound.
"We fixed the shape. We managed that a few months ago. Now we know, because the modeling we've done, we know the shape will go to 1,000 miles an hour. Now we are actually getting on building it."
Bloodhound SSC, named after a missile, was powered by a combination of a rocket and the jet engine from a Typhoon fighter, from a standing start to reach 1,000 miles an hour in just 45 seconds; be stationary again, just 100 seconds and 10 miles later.
The design was revealed at Farnborough Airshow in the UK with the Typhoon showing off its awsome power, Andy Green noting his car will be faster than the current low level air speed record let alone the land speed record.
"Here we are at Farnborough, Farnborough International Airshow with all these fantastic airplanes around. This is the fastest thing here. We are gonna be quicker than any of them."
Construction of the car has now begun with test run scheduled to start on a dry lake bed in South Africa in 2012.
Stuart McDill, Reuters, at Farnborough Airshow.
