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Uploaded by on Jul 31, 2007

Video of run65 from the cockpit as it goes supersonic. The driver is Andy Green who is now a Wing Commander in the RAF

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  • "...letting the car roll..sod the chute "

    This was an awesome performance. Can't wait for Bloodhound with the 1000mph attempt in a couple of years. What's another 250mph...

    Much was learnt from Thrust and previous challenges have been addressed. For example, the Bloodhound body will have a special aerodynamic, bisected sump incorporated below the seating area, to comfortably house Andy Green's massive balls

  • It's people like this that should be knighted instead of footballers and soap stars!

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  • @bmwgtrm3 Sure ... right after you suck your own cock.

    Let me know when you've finished.

  • @gamblemadman just finger your self

  • @bmwgtrm3 Then you thought right.

    Good for you.

  • You ever take it off any sweet jumps?

  • Whered all the noise

  • It is not Andy Green but Darth Vader.

  • He wants to get the wheels properly aligned on that car. The pull to the right at speed is terrible.

  • @delta426e as far as I know there was no wind tunnel tests for Thrust SSC at any scale because they couldn't replicate the ground effect. There's no wind tunnel in the world that can simulate the ground moving under the vehicle at those speeds. It was all done with CFD although they did do a rocket sled test with a scale model.

  • @AUPilot3 Actually it's not perfectly symetrical. The two rear wheels are offset fore and aft and we now know that it was the pressure waves building up around them that caused the yaw at ~600mph. They didn't have the money to do the CFD on the whole vehicle so they did each half separately. Nobody noticed the issue until they redid it as part of the Bloodhound SSC project.

  • i thought it was a ground vehicle not a plane !

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