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Bloodhound SSC is a British supersonic land vehicle currently in development. Its goal is to match or exceed achieving a new world land speed record.〔(Noble, Green and Team Target 1,000MPH Record ) Thursday, 23 October 2008〕 The pencil-shaped car, powered by a jet engine and a rocket engine is designed to reach . It is being developed and built with the intention of breaking the land speed record by 33%, the largest ever margin. Runway testing of up to is scheduled to take place in early 2016. Bloodhound SSC will then be tested on the Hakskeen Pan in the Mier area of the Northern Cape, South Africa where a track long, wide has been cleared.〔(Rolls-Royce Backs Bloodhound ) Monday, 13 May 2013〕 ==Development== The project was announced on 23 October 2008 at the Science Museum in London by Lord Drayson - then Minister of Science in the UK's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills - who in 2006 first proposed the project to Richard Noble and Andy Green (the two men, between them, have held the land speed record since 1983). Richard Noble, engineer, adventurer, and former paint salesman, reached 633 mph (1,019 km/h) driving turbojet-powered car named Thrust2 across the Nevada desert in 1983. In 1997, he headed the project to build the ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, an RAF pilot, at , thereby breaking the sound barrier, a record first for a land vehicle (in compliance with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile rules). The task of driving the Bloodhound will fall to Wing Commander Green, who will lie feet-first in the Bloodhound SSC. As the car accelerates from in 42 seconds, he will experience a force of approximately 2.5''g'' (two-and-a-half times his body weight). To slow the vehicle, Green will deploy airbrakes at with disc brakes used below . As he decelerates, he will experience a force of up to 3''g''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bloodhound SSC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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