Some of this stuff is so damned cool.
http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-engineering-of-the-worlds-first-1-000mph-car-1732795926
http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-engineering-of-the-worlds-first-1-000mph-car-1732795926
Braking is very difficult, admits Elvin. The vehicle has been designed to slow from 1,000mph to standstill in 65 second, a process which creates forces of 3G in the cockpit. If you drive a family car into a wall at 30mph, thats what 3G feels like, he explains. Its what most people call a crash.
Green will experience that force for the duration of the deceleration, meaning that he endures a typical car crash for over a minute. Greens an experienced acrobatic pilot, though, so he wont be using a G-suit during the runs.
Yeah, I am not clicking on a gizmodo link.
It has a v8 sports car engine... for one of its fuel pumps. A major technical challenge will be how they handle the vacuum that forms behind it, since it will be moving faster than air can move around the car. It's like I'm reading about a thing someone made in Kerbal Space Program, not real life.
The engines particularly the jet engine dont like breathing the supersonic air that will be passing by the car when it breaks the speed of sound, so the team has designed the leading edge of cockpit to generate a huge shockwave, which will slow the air down to sub-sonic speeds. That helps the engine to work, but all the energy has to go somewhere and, sadly for Green, it turns up as noise. There will be sound deadening around the cockpit, and hell be wearing noise-canceling headphones,
The most recognizable thing, apart from the seven fire extinguishers, is the Jaguar AJ133 5.0-liter V8, lifted from an F-Type, which will run the fuel pumps that deliver over 211 gallons of high-test peroxide over the rocket motor's 20-second burn time.
:thumbsup:
Does a Corolla inline 4 operate the windows?
It seems like they could just cut the wings off an old F16 and have the same thing.
Yes, this is how VW will have to retrofit JETtasIs there a practical application for all of the engineering that went into this?
Yup, sometimes people miss the forest for the tree.
It's no different than a jet taxiing on the ground. Albeit at a MUCH higher speed than any jets have ever taxied on the ground.
We need something to slow down the air before it reaches the engine.From the HORRIFIC Gizmodo link:
It's no different than a jet taxiing on the ground. Albeit at a MUCH higher speed than any jets have ever taxied on the ground.
So, essentially, it's nothing like a jet taxiing on the ground.
So, essentially, it's nothing like a jet taxiing on the ground.
It has a v8 sports car engine... for one of its fuel pumps. A major technical challenge will be how they handle the vacuum that forms behind it, since it will be moving faster than air can move around the car. It's like I'm reading about a thing someone made in Kerbal Space Program, not real life.
Yup, sometimes people miss the forest for the tree.
It's no different than a jet taxiing on the ground. Albeit at a MUCH higher speed than any jets have ever taxied on the ground.
You don't know.
It's a lot more like a jet flying on the ground than it is a car driving in the sky.
You don't know.
It's a lot more like a jet flying on the ground than it is a car driving in the sky.
:biggrin:Can you people just stop with the stupid shitass analogies? It's literally a purpose built vehicle for trying to go 1000mph on a salt flat. A jet "flying" on the ground |) and a car "driving" in the sky |) both have to deal with aerodynamics, gravity, friction, and more or less the same things, just at varying levels.
That made my giggle.
Can you people just stop with the stupid shitass analogies? It's literally a purpose built vehicle for trying to go 1000mph on a salt flat. A jet "flying" on the ground |) and a car "driving" in the sky |) both have to deal with aerodynamics, gravity, friction, and more or less the same things, just at varying levels.
I actually have a pretty good idea. I'll have you know that I read Wikipedia.
But yes it is more like a plane on the ground than a car in the sky, since it will be moving quite a bit faster than sound at their goal of 1000mph. But that doesn't mean they could take the wings off an F16, redo its suspension, and call it a day. That's just retarded.