I got this release from Jules Tipler and thought it of enough general interest to post it for all. If you want to go to see the car run -- there's contact information at the bottom of the post. Jon a/k/a SSS
Register to see BLOODHOUND SSC run in South Africa
In September 2015, The BLOODHOUND Project will travel to South Africa to begin its campaign to set a new World Land Speed Record. Our team will be based at Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, for up to three months as we work towards our target for 2015: 800mph (1 200km/h).
Hakskeen Pan is in the Kalahari Desert, (see map) approximately three hours by road from Upington and 12 hours + from Johannesburg. There are internal flights connecting the two, as well as from Cape Town.
Accommodation in this remote location will be limited so advanced booking is essential. Access to the event and media facilities will also be tightly controlled, so media wishing to join us should register their interest here.
We will then contact you with information about accommodation, travel, access and accreditation.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Best wishes,
The BLOODHOUND Team
For more information, interviews, imagery and videos contact
UK: Jules Tipler jules.tipler@mettlepr.com / +44 (0) 7811 166 796
SA: Schalk Mouton schalk.mouton@mettlepr.com / +27 82 739 9637
Notes to Editors
The world land speed record of 763 mph is held by Thrust SSC, a UK team led by BLOODHOUND’s Project Director Richard Noble and driven by Andy Green.
The BLOODHOUND team scoured the globe to find the perfect desert to run the car on, it needed to be at least 12 miles (19km) long, two miles (3km) wide and perfectly flat.
The Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa was selected. At full speed BLOODHOUND SSC will cover a mile (1.6km) in 3.6 seconds, that’s 4.5 football pitches laid end to end per second.
BLOODHOUND has three power plants, a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets and a 550 bhp Supercharged Jaguar V8 engine that drives the rocket oxidiser pump. Between them they generate 135,000 thrust hp, equivalent to 180 F1 cars.
BLOODHOUND SSC is currently being assembled at the BLOODHOUND Technical Centre in Bristol, UK. It is on schedule for roll out summer 2015 where it will undergo UK runway testing up to 200 mph (321 km/h) at the Aerohub, Newquay. The Team will then deploy to South Africa to begin high speed testing with the target of reaching 800 mph (1,287 km/h). The Team will return to the UK to review the data and return to South Africa in 2016 with the aim of reaching 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h)
Over 280 global companies, 200 of them SMEs, are involved in the Project, which has become a showcase for science and engineering capability.
Over 5,700 UK primary and secondary schools have signed up to use the free BLOODHOUND Education resources in their classrooms
The educational outreach programme also runs in South Africa with more than 800 schools already participating and more than 100 BLOODHOUND Ambassadors signed up to help use the project to inspire young people about studying maths and science. The programme reaches out to schools across the country, but particularly in the Northern Cape Province, home to the track where the BLOODHOUND SSC will run.