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Offline comet

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Bloodhound latest news
« on: December 07, 2018, 07:13:16 AM »
see BBC news link below. Sad news that Bloodhound SSC will go into liquidation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c779dqq84njt/bloodhound-ssc






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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2018, 08:18:17 AM »
It's sad to see the effort get so close and not make it. I hope this news causes some angel investor to save the project.

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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2018, 01:09:38 PM »
Consider all the time and money invested and now it might end up in a museum? Bad news.
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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2018, 06:41:11 AM »
1,000 mph car for £250k ... bargain!  There must be someone out there ready to run with this project. 🐢

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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2018, 03:33:25 PM »
1,000 mph car for £250k ... bargain!


For that price the rolling chassis will come without any method of propulsion and possibly minus some other donated parts. The Administrators have still to to tell what items they have for sale.
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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2018, 03:53:26 PM »
1,000 mph car for £250k ... bargain!  There must be someone out there ready to run with this project. 🐢




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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2018, 04:17:19 PM »
Maybe UNFINISHED and HOPED-FOR 1000-mph car . . .
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2018, 04:20:29 PM »
Well thank you Bloodhound project (BTW, named after a British missile built way back) for preparing the perfect surface for LSR at Hakskeen Pan.
Weird how stuff works hey?. South Africa and the Northern Cape thank you for providing employment to the hundreds of people that cleared the track. :cheers: :cheers:

Motor racing is tough. All the poor kids here that bought into the project are going to be disappointed.

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« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2018, 04:37:37 PM »
   I hope B. Gates sees my post on Go Fund Me. I will let him be a co-driver if he springs for 10 mil.  :-D

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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2018, 04:38:11 AM »
Well thank you Bloodhound project (BTW, named after a British missile built way back) for preparing the perfect surface for LSR at Hakskeen Pan.
Weird how stuff works hey?. South Africa and the Northern Cape thank you for providing employment to the hundreds of people that cleared the track. :cheers: :cheers:
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Who owns the track?  I think Bloodhound had an agreement that no one else could use it before them.  Is it now available to others?

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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2018, 06:54:54 AM »
You should get on "Live at the Apollo".

I'm a nice guy but you need a good hiding. :-D :wink:

NEWS FLASH. DEFUNCT BLOODHOUND POROJECT now owns South Africa!!!!!

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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2018, 12:50:37 PM »
I always wondered how they could burn through so much money and still have more. I guess they cant.

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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2018, 02:05:32 PM »
I think one of the problems they had was losing sight of the objective. It became a public relations project, publicity was its prime objective. It can be argued that publicity was necessary to entice contributions and vendor cooperation but they went too far in that direction. The necessary engineering and construction suffered de-emphasis due to the bandwagon management. For many years NASA suffered the same problems, they focused on publicity, "space camp", classroom science programs, and other Disneyland-style promotion. Too bad, it looks like Bloodhound will be all for naught.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2018, 03:32:20 PM »
It's sad to see the effort get so close and not make it. I hope this news causes some angel investor to save the project.

Due to low ROI, investors steer clear of LSR - a philanthropist is what's required.

The Aussie Invader is in a similar situation in that they're looking for funds as well.

Seems the NA Eagle is the only financially viable absolute contender still standing.
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Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

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Re: Bloodhound latest news
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2018, 06:13:29 PM »
I think one of the problems they had was losing sight of the objective. It became a public relations project, publicity was its prime objective. It can be argued that publicity was necessary to entice contributions and vendor cooperation but they went too far in that direction. The necessary engineering and construction suffered de-emphasis due to the bandwagon management. For many years NASA suffered the same problems, they focused on publicity, "space camp", classroom science programs, and other Disneyland-style promotion. Too bad, it looks like Bloodhound will be all for naught.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

When they were here they had all the school kids invested and going nuts.