we're building a thousand-mile in our car and sharing that story with a global audience [Music] it's part supersonic jet fighter pot next generation space rocket our mission is not just to go fast it's about creating an engineering adventure to inspire a generation about the magic of science in technology we bring it to life in the most exciting way possible [Music] well welcome to all of you watching our live stream you join us myself mark where'll and Jenny Gow here at Cornwall Airport nuki in the southwestern corner of the United Kingdom where in about 15 minutes time the ej200 jet engine onboard Bloodhound SSC will burst into life and it will taxi onto the runway and make two high-speed runs it's 200 mile per hour public debut Jenny that the tension is starting to build and we're going to make a little bit of history and not too much much too much more time absolutely and people are really excited about this event it happens to be half term here in the UK so loads of kids loads of families have come down to calm will it's a beautiful part of the world to see exactly what's going to happen here and you can sense outside that people are really curious they're really excited there's a sense of anticipation and you're looking at this being the very first shape down so the first chance they've got to see when this vehicles actually running at any sort of speed are there any problems is there anything technically that isn't quite working it's all put together for the first time and that's what people are really excited about isn't it because if it's someone that's been involved in this for a while this is the first chance I've had to see to see all of the bits put together and Andy the the pilot the driver will go out there and see what it's like how could you not get excited when something is is dark blue and orange and it's 13 metres long it's got a flame coming out of the back and it makes lots of noise what's not to get excited about I agree with you absolutely I mean anything for me with an engine in it is good whether it be a lawnmower or you know anything up with Formula one cars rally cars but if you look at this vehicle you automatically know it's something very different it's something groundbreaking and we've been here all morning looking around getting a taste of what's happening out there and it's not just as you've said numerous times about a car going very fast is it no absolutely no they've as we've alluded to and when we've been discussing it over the course of this morning now the main goal of the car is not pure purely about speed the main goal of the car is to inspire the next generation of young people that science technology engineering and mathematics of what we call STEM subjects are important and can provide some fantastic careers to people and we talk about engineering but engineering is is a generic term you know you've got automotive engineering you've got structural engineering you've got aerospace engineering you've got a genetic engineering engineering is a term that we use and I don't think children truly understand that whatever we do you know the stall I'm sitting on now was created and designed by an engineer sound engineers are all around us as witness studio so it's to say engineering you know there's so many different aspects of it it's a very global eternities oh and talking about global if you want to get in touch with us maybe let us know where you are if you're watching the livestream then please use the hashtag bloodhound is go so maybe send us a picture of where you are if you're here today at nuclei and you've managed to find a perfect spot then use that hashtag bloodhound disco and let us know how you're doing what you're doing and if you're enjoying it well over my right shoulder five minutes ago somebody was doing a selfie with Andy there is no better selfie today is and with Andy green the fastest man on the earth 763 miles Prower 20 years ago in this car's predecessor and I was there I was at Farnborough when thruster to did its last ever run sorcery thrust SSC did its last ever runs at Farber in 1997 and I recall you know as we're going to see out there later on that car taxi down the runway in runway specification so not necessarily all the bodywork was cloaked because the wheels when the car runs tires are slightly bigger than the solid wheels it will run in the desert so they can't but all the bodywork on and you heard those engines start to spool up and then the car goes down the runway and you see that enormous efj looks as it's known the jet engine the afterburner come on as the car hits all reheat and 20 years later now it's putting hairs up on the back of my neck it's fantastic the fact that wherever you go today it's like talking to kids just the day before Christmas there is this sense that something phenomenal is about to happen and and the process of what people can expect over the next few minutes I mean at the moment we can see the live images of bloodhound it sparks up just outside our studio actually and it will move into position shortly yeah a few years ago there was a there was a retired American professor came to the UK and he came to its Bristol base he wanted to learn a little bit about the Bloodhound project and well he taught engineering he knew a little bit about aircraft and and rocket systems and he was impressed by what he saw he also endorsed the project you know he endorsed the idea behind the project that that thing that would you know push the imagination push the boundaries captivate the imagination and hopefully inspire young children which is which is what this project is very much about and one of the team down there suggested that you know this is potentially an Apollo moment for the next generation the Americans thought about it and agreed he agreed and thought yeah bloodhound house has the same capacitator to captivate and amaze the audience and get the world looking in one single direction and that legacy that creates as we just heard from from Sylvia can could hang on for for many years indeed now when the Americans said that that meant an enormous amount to the team that were there because this guy was not only a professor he was not only an engineer but had also been a test pilot he'd also been an astronaut he'd also walked on the moon and that man was Neil Armstrong he was a fan of the blue town project and we've got many of those here with us today you look around and there there are many people that have been engaged with this project for so long around the globe as well and this is an engineering adventure that's being followed in just about every country around the world so when we have got enormous amounts of knowledge of experience of enthusiasm here today so I think what we can do is perhaps just maybe have a look at the mighty ej200 jet engine that powers Bloodhound SSC and we'll be going to work as it heads down the runway in a few moments time [Music] a pencil-thin rocket car without any air intakes like the blue flame would seem to be the optimal design for a land speed record car so why do both thrust cars in Bloodhound SSC have jet engines jet engines are a tried and tested technology they're safe efficient and amazingly reliable getting large amounts of power almost at the push of a button older engines are too hard to find but bloodhound has been lucky enough to obtain a rolls-royce ej200 as used in the typhoon small light and hugely powerful it's one of the most advanced engines available today because bloodhound is effectively a prototype the development will involve making many runs of gradually increasing speeds with the team comparing the data from the car with their earlier computer predictions a jet engine is perfect for this and with more than 20,000 pounds of thrust the ej200 can get the car to over 600 miles per hour however for the first test the car is firmly tethered to the ground the big questions are will work and can we get reheat and a static test where no air is being forced into the small intake [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well the team is now getting Bloodhound SSC ready to start so we ask you that you all follow the peloton team follow their instructed instructions and they will show you to the viewing area here at Cornwall Airport nuki where you will get just one of the very best views of the cars running you can see that one of the last planes is now just coming in here at Cornwall as well and this is the last flight it's come in from the Scilly Isles the sky bus landing at Cornwall Airport and that's the last flight that we are now expecting to come in and very shortly we'll see the airport will hand over the airports to us Jenny actually closed this an International Airport they've closed it for an hour and a half so that they can make sure that the run is done safely and they've got to wait until the very last passenger is in the airport before they can start maneuvering things around otherwise they were worried health and safety reasons that someone might fall there I expect if you see the bloodhounds on the move it might take your breath away slightly we've got another guest that's come to join us but it's a very important part of the day and he's a very important man as well because bloodhound chief engineer mark Chapman has come to join us so welcome along mark good afternoon we really appreciate you giving up your time for what is now the pivotal part of the day first sort of of all you know the car is is right outside the studio at the moments the the York your team your engineering team have been around it they'll now be starting to work on certain aspects will the in preparation for the runs so just tell us what are that what are they doing in that air at the main straight outside of the studio so what you see them doing this is left like the pre-start check so this is them walking around the car and this is checking everything's where it should be so we revealed the car this morning we then you know a bit more than just polishing and check check the kick the tires and check the fluids we've now brought it round here and this is now getting it ready and the next time we wheel it out is it's now going to be taken around to the start area we're then going to get the air start going and then get and in the car and all those good things those final preparations so it's checking that they everything is as we left it as it left the house so from the hotend aircraft shelter to here that nothing's gone wrong everything's happy we've got no damage we've got no foreign objects that we're worried about and it's really clean and good to go to start the engine now I think you're gonna have to decode a few things for people who maybe are watching around the world and I new to this when it left the house did you have it at home this morning we're going to do yeah so we we had it in a house we're very lucky here at nuki so we've got a hard aircraft shelter so when the Royal Air Force were here as a base these very large you'll see them around the airfield he's very large concrete hangars we've been based in there now for the last 3-4 weeks when we were doing our low-speed testing here and actually just checking the engine and things like that actually we go back to 2012 we were here during the rocket testing and where we are now is actually quite look for all the team is quite emotional because there's a blast wall in there we fired the hybrid rocket here in 2012 and it's got a huge amount of heritage with us being down here in Newquay ok so the house was that sort of base the base the whole bear cross shelter there we go that's good thank you and I think I think we can see some pictures of it now from earlier on for those who just joined us on on the live webstream around the world the car was revealed out of the hardened aircraft shelter this morning before the Sun had even come over the horizon at nuki so it's now at UK time just coming up to quarter to one and this was around about what this was about seven o'clock half past 7:00 this morning my opposites but this about this morning I mean it was it was fantastic you know it is he it felt a bit like something over 2001 a Space Odyssey or you know I had all the lights out there came out we somebody said about having a smoke machine as we came up the mist and the fog was doing itself naturally so the corniche weather was helping us as it came out it looks stunning it's fair to say that the weather there as we as we see it at 7 o'clock this morning we it was was rather misty and and now this must be almost ideal conditions for you this is ideal because the way the weather is now there there was a few patches of blue sky and but actually having a slightly cloudy background you will really get impression our engine when we start the ej200 and it starts to pull away you will see that engine got a reheat and it will be like somebody's brought the Sun onto the runway and that fancy green that you're seeing now here's the man that will be behind the so called steering wheel I suppose just explain a little bit if you can about why him what his responsibilities are today no Andy green and there is a steering wheel it's route this is a car and it is what's fantastic about this project is it's something people can relate to it is a it's four wheels its steering wheel his the throttle put on the brake pedal he's been part of the project since the inception a so he's already the world's fastest man he's driven a car at 763 miles an hour there is nobody better there is nobody that you could think of that that he's calm and often and has that kind of measured this isn't about going quick this is all about its understanding risk and managing safety and he's been part the design team for the whole length of project though this is a Carla's designer and Andy and his skills and his capability and he is the perfect person to be doing this job how important do you think it is being for the team and the core engineering team to have continuity of individuals from from the outset of this project when you think of you know and you've mentioned Andy but we've also of course got Ron Ayers and you've been there since since the very early stages so that must be enormous ly important that this is a continuation as this was you know that the inception this was from thrust SSC so the team that broke the sound barrier 763 you know they've just had their anniversary having having that group of people so richard noble ron ayers martin davidson andy green or all those people involved with the project this is the finest team you could put together to actually start off doing a supersonic car and actually the team that we have with us here today and that the past members at here today there's this fantastic enthusiasm this passion for breaking the land speed record and you couldn't hope to work with the final group of people and when it comes to that group just tell us a little bit about their choreography where people are now who you're talking to because I know you've got a radio on your lap and you know we'll be waiting for communication of what's happening around the base here at nuki so yes I have a ready on my lap I'm hopefully I'm not gonna be able to do anything because I'll be quite interesting but no suits we've got a start team and a receive team an engineering team so there is a there is a choreography to how this car works it's we pushed out and then they'll put into a start position within of an air stop cart so this car doesn't have a starter motor so we use a another gas turbine to use a small jet engine to start the big jet engine and actually when it starts up that's the loudest thing we'll hear so you'll hear there's this rule and that will be the air start card that blows hot air across basically a turbocharger so there is like a turbo within the car that spins around that connects to the a gearbox then from that gearbox is a shaft that drives into the main jet engine and that will bring that up to a speed when he gets to a certain speed you will then be able to start the igniters and the jet will start working or self-sustaining will disconnect the air start car and the car is ready to roll start to see the pictures you know the car is starting to roll but it starting to roll under pure man power as they begin to wheel the car out and it's fair to say that Andy will not be in that driving position when he's heading down the runway later on he's got he's got a cockpit which will keep him safe and sound and give him all of the columns that he needs and all of the information that he needs whilst he's performing these high-speed roads so one of the things about that cockpit that is very much designed by Andy so he is everything is where he'd like it to be so everyone thinks driving a straight line how hard can that be actually if you look at the footage on on the internet for from what from YouTube from what was thrusters to see was like there is an awful lot going on I mean that this car accelerates like no other car you've ever seen there is there is a lot to do slight side winds and all those sort of things they need to be corrected what is unique about Andy is that ability to look at all that information to be able to to calculate what's going on with that beam measuring brake pressures or engine engine thrusts fuel flows and doing that all in a very short space of time so we're expecting to go naught 200 in something around nine seconds and and that isn't a very long time - tell me what Andy will be feeling and what he'll go through just to get to that eight seconds and then on the other side so so Andy we'll all taxi around the runway by Shiro I'm supposed to work driving but he drives around the runway and we'll go around the taxiways and get to the holding point just before the main runway we're very lucky with Nicky here they've actually as you're saying earlier that they've closed the airport to air traffic and we have the use of this runway for the next hour and a half now so and Andy will hold up and stuff the runway and he'll do his own internal checks so he'll go through all systems and all the things that he wants to know that he he's happy and comfortable with he'll then calls the the tower to get clearance to run down the runway he then he's a car so he's got a throttle pedal he will he will put his foot down that throttle pedal the engine will start to come up and as we start to move forward he'll then start to move into more and more power settings this is a fly-by-wire engine so there isn't a lever pulling on a load of fuel so it will accelerate gently and then more and more Powell come in and the reheat will cope will come onboard and then he'll be on reef maybe 2 to 3 seconds can you explain what reheat means for people like me who are home going read so so reheat is a you don't have it on your airliner but it's a very efficient way of getting more power so the ej200 is a fantastic engine so we generate something like some like six tons six tons of thrust what they call dry thrust you go to maximum dry power so that's the engine operating at the highest power setting you get without anything else so reheat when you see an afterburner on a jet fighter you see those come those flames out the back that that's basically when you inject extra fuel into the hot air that's come out the engine that ignites and that gives you more power so we can go from six tons of thrust up to about nine tons of thrust so in in Newquay we're getting about eight tons of thrust for a car that weighs 5 tons that that's a lot of power that car will go vertically upwards and as they're all in the car rack you know we get it and for the first time really it's sort of a glimpse of the view that Andy will get you sort of starting to think nestled himself into the cockpit but it's quite a narrow view that he gets is almost like looking through a letterbox I suppose it is and there are some side windows inside and somebody said at one point always that for checking his blind spot I think he'll be very very surprised when he starts overtaking him but he needs to look easy to look straight ahead and he needs to be very clear about where he's going so the view when we came up with that that design of car it's very much based upon what he can see and where he can see on the nose of the car and again for those it is to join us on web stream you know the car it's it's got bodywork in some areas but it but there are other parts where the body works missing just just explain why why at the moment it's not as streamlined as maybe it should be so what's very important here so in the UK we running on you know it is one of the longest runways in the country but it is a runway so when we're in South Africa we're running metal wheels on the runway I think they'd be quite annoyed if we ran on metal wheels and actually Andy wouldn't stop that well so we've got rubber tires who've actually got rubber tires from a English Electric lightning which are very very narrow they're very narrow for an aircraft tire but they're not quite as narrow as the ones we have on the car so actually the front bodywork that doesn't cover those front wheels they're exposed and likewise the rear wheel fairings that go around the rear tires also very exposed that we always knew that going to happen so so those parts the bodywork don't don't exist but in fact we've got rubber tires means that we get very good braking so unlike in the desert worrying have brakes wheel brakes on the front wheels here in the runway configuration we have carbon carbon discs on the front and the rear and I suppose because you're running at those speeds and sort of 200 miles per hour approximately in in a few moments time and it is ago this is a live test this it's not a demonstration run vo those who just joined us this is live testing going on today and the data will be used to propel this car and into greater speeds later on but as a result of what we're doing here today then we can see is that as the engineer is pushing the car back they'll be preparing for the first of two runs like out there and and equally when the engine fires up I gather he's doing two runs with the engine fired all of the time so this is gonna be the longest single period you've run that ej200 since you've been down here as well yes so this will be this will be the longest we run the engine for continuously so if we're doing a a drive round to start the runway and you will do a full power run and then he'll come off the end of the runway and then it'll turn around and come back and do do that again and then do that twice it will be the longest duration that we've run that to not be the also the fastest we've run the car to you to date I hate to be the one to ask this question but I'll ask it anyway and is there anything that could go wrong I would say not I would say I'm pretty gonna keep myself now because it's quite foggy this morning and electricity and fog doesn't work that well together no I mean we are very confident so we've done some test runs here the car will work that the car will will go very very well I'm here's your confident we go so things that could go wrong so Andy may may miss the turning point so it might be because of how we run the engine and we were trying to go a bit faster we don't before we're trying to come off the runway a little bit ahead of where the end of the runway is there's a taxiway that we would take if we go past that then Andy takes the next taxiway and we may have to stop that stop the engine help the car around the corner it's turning circle isn't good even for a runway and then we'll go back the other way and it all get restarted a bit closer you say that the turning circle isn't great on on this car so folks so for the uneducated what is the turning circle off the car so the turning circle is a mere 250 metres so as some of you may have witnessed this morning as we as we move the car around there is a kind of a 15-point turn we do to do a really tight corner but actually on on the runway in the taxiways it warned the routes we've been trying over the last last couple of weeks or so and Andy can drive from one end to the other and drive back down the taxiway and reposition himself and start the runway well as you can see things are getting to a very momentous time so that for me is the moment where I'm going to love you and leave you I'm going to go outside and I will be there to speak to you Andy green as soon as he's finished his run and get his first reactions to it as well and so enjoy I hope it goes really well and I'll be back a little bit later oh and bloodhound is go is the hashtag were using so if you want to get involved on social media that's the one to use so thank you very much for joining us and I'll disappear now yeah bloodhound is go and of course the website is Bloodhound SSC comm Bloodhound SSC calm I saw a few moments ago Mark Chapman there was it sort of a a vehicle arrived that had got a green box on the back of it what's the green box so I would say was Andy's packed lunch but he's a hungry man nice we met the air start khat so that that green box was actually used to be used to start vc10 so you see down the the end of where people came in through there was a VC ten so that's an air start cart from for a Conway engine now what's in there is a is a small jet engine and we basically run that and that the hose you can see going to the back of the car is an airline and that goes towards into the yeah my gearbox there's an air start turbine there so that blows the engine around and so we're just about to check that take the exhaust openings also flap and get that ready to go and then that engine will get started libel come up to power and speed then Andy will call when he's have clearance for an air traffic will go air on and you'll see that hose inflate and we are hoping that so we should as and when we start to get a little bit of a air traffic going on or communication between and the in the car and a Jess who is up in air traffic control we were hoping that we might have had the chance to speak to Jess but she's a busy busy lady today and understandably so so as she is safely ensconced Jess kinsmen in air traffic control because she is the room controller and therefore she has got a a lot on a plate today you know a busy thing to do and she might have the best view in the house but she doesn't really get the opportunity to enjoy it no it's quite yeah I think we've been very lucky with the support we've had from from Cornell Airport here because it's an unusual thing to do to say close your runway and we'll run a car up and down it but it's more so and the hands in pockets looking very relaxed and the hands in pockets he's looking very relaxed he's been through this process numerous occasions and therefore I suppose as Richard noble was referring to earlier on on when you drive these cars these fast cars all of the time it does become a process it becomes the norm it is so what we were seeing Andy green doing now is that he's he's now doing his final walk around checks around the car so he's he's checking the tires for any damage he just walk around to check there's nothing loose on the car so things like know that the cameras the aerials anything it's on there that might fall off while he's while he's driving at the very front of the car think we just quickly saw in shock there at the very front there are two flags right on the nose of the car not sure whether we might be able to get the cameraman to head back down there and all but right at the very front of the car it looked like a Union Jack there we go super stuff Union Jack and as he zooms in that's the South African flag so just tell me a little bit of without that because I've seen flags on the front of land speed record cars before but I haven't seen the South African flag on anything so its traditional that though there is one land speed record car that that's run in South Africa previously however the tradition is that you have the the nation of the the team that's trying to break a record and the flag of the nation of where you're breaking that record so if you look at which the nobles car or and the greens car they've got the cross flags which is the Union flag and then also the Stars and Stripes of Americans they ran the current Black Rock Desert so running South Africa on the high scheme path and we're very lucky that that is that the greatest the greatest track in the world that we could hope to run on obviously we have the flag of South Africa tradition tradition being going on is that been going off for quite some time then proprietor for us too and Richard mobilisation yes sir I mean it's kind of a tradition that I don't know where whoever wrote it down first but it's kind of one those nice things to do so when records stopped being broken so in the UK we used to bury records on pending sands but then moved to a place like Daytona Beach and one oval and that kind of is when that tradition started have you had a British team breaking breaking the record in in in another country you mentioned you know the the likes of Daytona Beach you mentioned pending sands you know when you look back at the the very beginnings of land speed record breaking what we're seeing here is probably without question the most high-tech the most professional car that has ever been built to break a land speed record and looking back at some of the the early attempts they were brave people you're taking what are calculated risks and at any point that that risk goes beyond what you're happy with everything stops you know the run stops the run gets aborted but in the early days the early pioneers who who who put us to where we are today that it was an entirely different thing it was a it was a very different it was a very dangerous sport but it's very much do with how do you manage that risk how do you how do you go faster and faster and and yes you're right this is a very different engineered car from even thrust SSC the amount of analysis we've done before we actually start to do actually cut metal is huge and phenomenal but if you look at the risk so the things like that the forces and stuff account the square of the speed so you go twice as quick you're generating force times the drag there's extra load on that car but actually the power requirement goes up with a key with the speed so twice as quick full times the drag but it's eight times the power so there's a there's a huge leap even to go from you know 763 thrusters to see breaking the sound barrier to a thousand we need a tremendous amount more power to get it those two from 800 to a thousand we travel you size the rocket so that that's the reason then why when we have something like a Bugatti Veyron which can do 250 miles an hour you can't just get to four bagatti Veyron engines put that in a car it will go a thousand miles now because the maths and the physics just don't make that happen the mass of the food but also the moment start going above about four hundred five hundred miles an hour tires stop working see you can't generate the friction with the ground so the rubber tires will just get thrown off thrown off the rim so you end up having to go to a thrust car see you can see all the land speed records that are running beyond Camberley in the last two blue birds that was the last wheel driven car but even that was powered by a jet engine the wheels we saw a video earlier on foot for the people that were on site here but for those that are around the world looking at what's going on here just just tell us a little bit about the wheels that you're going to be running in South Africa they are the fastest wheels in the world you've almost had to reinvent the wheel to create that wheel talk us through some of the enormous numbers of the forces they have to deal with so I mean it was pretty much the first job on the project was no we had a hard can it be to design a wheel and then you'd look at the forces in your the wheel that's going around it ten and a half thousand revolutions per minute four minutes per minute so that means G so how as you fling things around as you spin things around your head it you get that load on them so that's 55,000 radial-g so put it in context that's a bag of sugar weighs 55 tons and with our original wheel design we literally find we couldn't find a material to make that wheel from without it ripping yourself to pieces so we had to think well okay something's wrong it we cannot do this is that the limit the product have we set a speed that you cannot you cannot exceed and what bloodhound does it's quite different is that we changed that problem so the problem isn't making a wheel strong and a friendly the actual thing we're trying to solve is the car needs to stay on the ground and only needs to steer it so who actually changed how the car steered and that allows us to cope with a different wheel design and that wheels own working very much with the likes of Rolls Royce it's very much like a gas turbine disc so the inside of a big jet engine and those rules are symmetric and they're made out of aluminium and they will they'll be perfectly actually spun testimony in the rigs with rolls-royce and Darby later sir jet engine parting so it's gone to full speed now what was interesting about that was that we always had this when they test a gas turbine they run them under vacuum because gas turbines have big fans on them and they generate meters they churn a lot of air under vacuum for the younger listeners there's no air where they're running all of the air out and do it that way it's not all the area because it churns the air it's like a massive paddle wheel and it generates a lot of heat and it generates it will always heat and they said well you've got you've got a wheel that you've got no blades no paddles they'll run just fine when so when when we ran that when we ran that engine when we ran that wheeling that we basically got to ten half thousand revolutions per minute so as if the car was doing a thousand miles an hour and what it's doing that the outside of the wheel heated up to almost a hundred degrees centigrade in some like three seconds just shearing the boundary edges shearing the thin layer of air around the wheel so you mentioned radial-g earlier on and again I know I'm conscious that we're going to have you know a potentially a young audience that are out there and looking at these fantastic images that we're seeing they're being streamed live over there over the net radial-g radial GA for any anybody that's that's younger the easiest way to say that they felt radial juice around is around about so imagine going on a roundabout and suddenly throws you around the round right if you sit in the middle you don't feel very much force on you as you go towards the edge of the roundabout you hang on it's a fantastic now your legs fly out and you grip on it it's wonderful that is what radial juice so if you imagine at the edge of the wheel that's as if a bag of she would weigh 55 tons so it's trying to rip itself apart that I'm guessing indeed so that the team look is so they they're almost ready now are they potentially to get and the in there is we could see his crash helmets which by the look of things has got the Union Jack on it but also has of course you know some of the some of the key wildlife that will be there out in the Kalahari so you know that there's still this fantastic association between the project and we can also again get a a really good glimpse of that that onboard shot that we're going to see we've got a range of cameras that are on board this car as well so we've got to be able to see things as well and look look back at some of the replays as well that we see as the car heads down the runway indeed I mean the beauty that's part of the whole idea of this project is that is that we can stream both both live video and data off the car more trying some systems here today actually running down the runway nuki gives us that opportunity yes that there are various camera shots that we'll be collecting and streaming live but they're also numerous other cameras on the car that will collect post run and be able to show that later and looking on the screen now you've got all of those names down the side of the car and I think it's worth again just confirming this for people who have just joined us on live webstream is that a lot of these companies are involved with the project but the fundament of the project and some of the reasons why they are involved on half their name on the side of the car is because they want to engage and they want this project to in spire the next generation of scientists and engineers that are going to go into their businesses as well because it's it's not its main goal is not going fast it is inspiring that the next generation of young people indeed and when we started you know so eight ten years ago people go well you know you'll just say that working but actually when you look at all the products done and the inspirations have no I've I've been introduced to three people so far today that actually said I'm doing engineering is the Bloodhound around doing science that available the products now in its you know ninth 10th year and you're actually now to see that a group of people like older people actually find science exciting and there is no better way in this project means seeing when we start to see this car run down the runway in a few minutes time and when we saw it start off for the first time only a week or so ago that the feeling that gives us is is amazing so we can see that Andy is now not only inside the car but he's now starting to put to the crash helmet on we've been hearing a little bit of radio traffic between air traffic control in our studio here and the starts team so the start team are in the process now I suppose Andy of beginning to get things going and beginning to do the final checks before the car hits down the runway but so anyway they're just go himself comfies gonna be strapping sell finger that's getting the helmet on and he's now basic just waiting for clearance from air traffic that's basically to tell him that their recovery teams are in the right place on the on the runway once they're in the right place the runway he'll get the the clearance to start the start the car so will then signal or start to yes so we're just hearing that around about two minutes time that we all start to begin to hear a little bit more radio traffic so the comms are coming through you can see that Andy is beginning to put on his gloves and wall and he is starting to do the final sort of checks and balances just talk us through these these final few processes that he'll be going through so he's now inside the car he's now got the crash helmet on so I assume the sort of comms checks that are going on and the final checks that that all of his instruments are working so he's basically he's powering up the electrical systems on the car he's doing final comms tricks with his start team you can see I'm just holding holding the canopy hatch so once he's in there he'll signal he's fine for that he'll put his breathing air on and the radio he's now signaling for there's confirmation over the radio that the recovery team they heard recovery there now that that's the team at the bottom end of the runways adult so it's basically there's a receiving team at the end of the runway so basically the idea is that Andy will drive off the tax rate that's whether read back by the sounds of things and we I just said the words start to prove this and so that means the air start now will will power up yep so it's they've now they've now approved him to signal to the start team to start the air start so you now see that go through it start up process start up process continuing here that I can hear that in the background I mean that's absolutely you said it was a jet engine on its own it you can hear that familiar world as it starts that it starts to fire up it is quite funny so as it starts up you then when we start the actual DJ 200 you almost can't notice any difference it's quite it's quite fantastic now that's noisy when the car is trying to attempt to go flat out at its ultimate target speed of 1000 miles per hour a thousand fifty is its peak speed that it's been designed for I gather it will be running a jet engine it will also be running a rocket engine on that occasion so in terms of decibel level how much more does that decibel level go up when you run the jettison as a rocket that that pitch you saw at the rear of the car isn't the place you want to stand so the the jet engine and the rocket were talking about 180 to 200 decibel it is full of when we did the the rocket firing here down at new key and we fired the rocket in in the hardened aircraft shelter that actually sort of follow the car alarms so it's a pretty noise head and I did hear once the disc that correct me if it's not quite true that on the day that this car runs I think we can get some more communications from the car high on fire so he's now on so he's now asked for the air to go into the air start turbine and that'll start winding up DJ 200 and you'll start to see heat haze through the back the engine and a so I heard a statistic I don't know if it's true or not but on when this car runs and looks to try and break the record it will be the noisiest thing on earth I think we looked at it and the only things would be noise it would be something like our an or space that's taking off or or a really big volcano so it's gonna be very noisy and looking at the conditions we mentioned ideal that there's not a lot of movement on the windsock so we're gonna be good to go shortly it's it's perfect conditions for today just as a very small minor problem with just a speed ring by the sounds of things which seems to sort itself out and that's what that's what these tests are about that this is a prototype vehicle so so what people maybe think this is just a show and tell no this is a proper engineering exercise now seeing Andy going through his checklist going through all the things he needs to do so that final checklist it sounds as though those final disconnection there of the chocks so I think very shortly we will be seeing and be taxiing down what is Delta runway here at new keep air port of call normal FSU g20 green in the cockpit dr TV 1 at 2 pi over 3 howdy so the moments coming mark we are about to see very shortly the car roll out onto the runway for the first time we heard the communication err and he will head down the Delta taxiway and then down towards the xxx threshold as it's known which is at the bottom end of the runway he's going to come from the opposite end bethey the xxx threshold is the far end of the runway where he will cross over the runway to then start taxiing down the opposite side ready to line up that's all you see you'll see them sort disappear down over the slight hillock here at new key and then it'll go round the end of the runway and then drive all the way back to see them going down the other end and then old position at the start of the runway and then he'll get the clearance now go for a run so we can see the car taxiing away down the delta away you've seen you've been here for for the static tests of this car and for the tie-down tests where we physically stop the car rolling but run the engine up you've been here for the first dynamic tests as well and what does it mean for you today to be able to do this you've seen this before but it's the first time we've done it in front of the public underworld I think people getting know how it's like that this is even even seeing it's like this no this is a fantastic thing that is being put together out of a team in Bristol we will pick up on a little bit more radio traffic that's going on as Andy green makes his way away from the start area down at the Delta taxiway and on towards the thirty threshold where he will ask for clearance again to cross that 30 fret threshold because of course that is runway approach for any other aircraft which in theory will not be around here at the Cornwall Airport Yuki because they have closed the runway for us for an hour and a half to be able to conduct these two high-powered runs and that's not forget this is the public debut of Bloodhound SSC as it heads down the Delta taxiway on towards the 30 threshold and it's very shortly going to conduct a couple of high-speed runs in excess of 200 miles an hour accelerating at around about one and a half G as well mark as well so not sustained for long but that's still a significant amount of G for a short period it it makes most cars look pretty pretty shabby actually you know we've we've been Anna before in this dish we'll do 200 around about nine seconds and so yes for the first up to 260 200 to you know just over a hundred then a a very fast road car can kind of keep up but then it just really takes off naturally and we could see the the enormous crowd heading towards the viewing area some more from the car [Music] [Applause] crowds pouring we were expecting three to three and a half thousand here marking it and this is just the first of three days where we're doing this we're doing game tomorrow with a different batch and schoolchildren you know you could argue the most important audience 4,000 almost who's gonna be here on Monday in your wildest imagination could you at the very beginning of this project really perceived how many people it really has captured their imagination so it's that's only just going around the end of the runway so you'll now start that drive back along the northern northern taxiway to come back and you ask me what exciting me what's going to excite me actually seeing other people's reactions so this is your piece to drive down the alpha taxiway to the piece that's only given permission to go down to the other end of the runway yeah it's people's reactions to when we saw this car start off I made two weeks ago and then when we saw it run for the first time genomic tests it I think it's stunning and it takes my breath away but actually to be able to share that with with the people that hear of these three days and actually to the children they're here to see their excitement because I don't think there is anything that you've ever seen before that would pay for what it looks like so we can see him heading down the alpha taxiway now all of the people here at Cornwall Airport nuki making their way down towards the viewing area and you mentioned it's of the end of the runway it sort of drops away we could just see that the tail fin of the car which which is I think one of the most beautiful things to see on that card just tell us about the job of that tell them what's the job that that does so it's very simple it's keep the pointy end at the front it's a bit like a a a blade you see on the back of a feather on an arrow what this cars different is that we can't have this car too stable so one of the things people asking what would stop this car from running a really high side wind a really high crosswind and it would end would be like a weathercock and granny would struggle to steer against it of all time Sunbeam will move to the agreed position near the entrance point for bloodhound can we have a vote by the board and we can hear the rest of the team they're on radio comms as well so this is this is not just about Andy this is just about posit making sure you've got all of your team positioned in the right places to conduct their duties as we conduct what is a live test room so it's so very much so you ask being done in Yuki he's also to do with testing the car which is obvious but interesting Andy but actually to test the team and to train the team and this there are very few opportunities we get to do this and this is a fantastic opportunity and it's to make sure that they all you know they all know what their job is what their remit is on the day because when you've done that you've had that opportunity to practice it then the team sort of clicks and it needs to because you need to hit the ground running when you get out there into what are very very difficult conditions I think we can hear a little bit more coming up from Andy as he begins to head down to the water bottom of alpha taxiway where he will then line up at the bottom of runway twelves he's got to cross the 12 threshold and that's a curve that will bring him round and then he needs to line the car up I'm guessing on the centerline cuz we we've heard from you that the turning circle on this car is 250 metres so he won't line up at the bottom of the room ykers the turning circle won't allow him to he has to move up the runway a little bit he'll go up the runway a little bit but an old hold and get permission to go and then he'll put his foot down so we ride on board with Wing Commander Andy green the only man in the world who has traveled supersonic on land having set the existing land speed record in Blackrock Nevada on the 15th of October 1997 20 years ago is he now heads on to the 12 threshold and is about to line the car up at the bottom of the runway so we will hopefully get some final traffic from Andy green as he begins to line the car up ready for the first of let's not forget two runs here at Kabul Airport nuki beautiful sight and well this has been a long time coming and the car looks absolutely fantastic now I mean I think just looking at that at the moment the way the weather's picked up during the morning and just got better and better I think it looks done there's only pretty much lined up on the run so the car is in position the needle you can see in the middle of middle of man is hot be that that is his speedo so you'll see that neither as lips all right so Bloodhound is go beautiful sight you can hear the cheers I can even hear the cheers and the and the applause in the background with you Wow I mean I that that is quite something mark you know just a few seconds of reheat on the jet flames coming out of that fantastic efj looks out the back and and Bloodhound SSC is accelerated from zero to 200 miles an hour in in eight seconds and as we said one and a half G I mean it it it is a no I still get goosebumps when I see that and I've seen it a few times now it is amazing I does it isn't like an air show it isn't like anything you've ever seen before you seeing a car on a set of tires going down a runway faster than anything you've ever seen before for now and in such an impressive way and I think it's a huge privilege to work with the guys that have actually puts together and a running working on the car today there's some great onboard images as well that sort of really give you an idea as to just how can finds that cockpit is and and when we think about where you're going to be operating this car and then looking to try and achieve its maximum performance a very harsh a very warm environment a very cramped cockpit for him he's going to be in there for quite a period of time it's not a nice working environment so the biggest thing that Andy was worried about was noise so when we first they've just done a quick walk around check around the caster they see the the engineers on the received team what they've done is they've just looked for any any damage on the car they look to check for things like the cameras are still in position that we haven't left any debris on the runway and now Andy's got clearance to start turning the car around and going back down the same a similar routes what he's done previously to realign up on the runway so that's that's quite a quick process then I don't I thought that might be you know a longer process but already then route number one done he's starting to now think about the second run of the day and gathering that data again yes yeah it's very much it is a it is a very slick process now I know we've been here practicing foot for a couple of weeks and there are a couple of issues with around various corners but we've got a route now that we think and he can drive through and we test out a few times last week and I think very easily and and you will to get back and he transits across across the threshold or the other runway down the tax when he crosses back across nearly at the airport terminal so he says that be ej200 is a remarkable piece of kit and he's taking him around towards a bottom section of the room wipers we're ready to head up back through the 30 fresh hold down what will be he's now coming back down Echota charlie is he not where he will cross across the roadway and then go back down to a crosser he colored other critters ain't actually one of its much in kind of a trigger late race circuits he's he's driving very slowly around like a figure eight then all blowing back up from the runway when this page did investment better you look it up the car in sunshine the colors of it you know just work you know I was never a fan of the color of the thrust SSC the black car I thought ed for us to look better in gold but for me just the pure color of that car it works and it was kind of accident it was kind of when we very early in the project we said we'll need to have a color confirmation that and the green is clear to cross echo to Charlie and then on to the Alpha taxiway so that's the instruction will allow him to turn right in a few moments of time and move across the runway and we can see now on the screen the Epis complying with the instruction from Jess Clinton's book who is the run controller up in air traffic control here at Cornwall Airport Yuki so over the echo to Charlie on to the alpha runway and that will bring him back down towards the bottom ready to complete run number two mark and that's not that far away it's not so we're probably talking about two three minutes to him being ready to actually line up on the runway again and as we saw last time once he once he puts his foot down that then it really does go no we're talking about he's on the power for maybe five six seconds and then read about three four seconds with the Diamonds out the back of it I think it would just look stunning as he comes down again so what is it that forms those diamonds are by I saw them on Run 1 when it was on the full reheat what forms the diamonds so what you'll see is that when when Andy goes from stationary to actually start to put the power on and nozzle those petals at the back change change their shape and they're basically controlling the airflow within the engine so you don't want to have supersonic so air faster than speed of sound within the engine so the nozzle moves to debase it to choke the flow to slow it down then as it rushes out the bag it accelerates hugely and you'll get these diamonds energy shock waves there's supersonic shockwaves within the the exhaust down at the jet engine you can see that in the flame of it with a very bright the bright diamond shapes you see and the flame around the back in terms of the temperatures coming on the back of the car clearly hotter once you get the rocket motor in there but just with the ej200 jet engine so it's sort of thing I I find first thing light just image so the flame inside they just enjoy me so soundly just right line up so when the flames inside the jet engine are a higher temperature than the metal that around that can withstand so actually they cool those components so it's actually about 2,000 degrees centigrade so it's much hotter than inside a volcano so there's actually despite the fact that there's lots of combustion going on there there's calling going on at the same time there is cooling but the cooling is about 600 degrees centigrade so it is it's not cooling as you tonight it's warmer than my oven at home put in that way so it's just now heading around the final part of alpha lining up onto the bottom of runway 12 and this will be the second ever run of Bloodhound SSC in front of the public here in the UK at Cornwall Airport tanooki down in the very southwestern part of the United Kingdom on this car it is a live test run ladies and gentlemen this car is being run in front of the public for the very first time 250 meter turning circle means that Andy has to utilize all of the edge of the runway before he then comes back onto the centreline part the way up runway one to here which gives him projection into a a slight southwesterly direction so a lot to one two degrees north magnetic north there or there about so the cars lining up on the runway final confirmation should be coming through from ATC Tyrol wins two o'clock and absolutely astonishing sight ladies and gentlemen the second-ever public run off blood to hand SSC at corporal airport here in yuki and mark to me with my own educated eye that looked like another fantastic rub you can't put them in that I was and say it looks quick it sounds great Fellini you can feel it you can you can feel the noise and just to see the thing that struck me these last two weeks being is how effortless that car looks it looks like if you if you just let it go it will just keep going and going going all the way to break the land speed record so now the process is that Angie will now sort of sit and let the Jets call down I assume for a minute and then you sort of go through the process of turning one of the systems off now so basically and Andy has to drive drive the car around so we'll drive it back to pretty much where he started and then we'll then start doing the the cool down process so Andy will let the aren't the jet idle for a bit we'll do some checks with the engineering team he'll then clear the car to be will make sure there's no debris left on the runway so doing a quick inspection now so you can see them now just looking at the wheel teensy so actually so I've done the checks are now clearing him to go and that's light you know you can see some slight some vocal throughout that's from the carbon carbon discs those those districts will be getting to between seven and eight hundred degrees centigrade they'll be glowing absolutely white-hot to see brings that car to a halt and those carbon discs you know they are you know we see carbon discs on Formula one cars but no this is not this is not a carbon disk off a Formula One car this is a a disc that has been built bespoke for this car and just for these runway runs as well so it's to the so these are ap Racing's and produce the disc in calipers for us so they are the speeds we're talking about is no 200 miles now you see cars at the mornin and forty ones doing approaching that speed but this this very much this is a this is a five ton car is a huge amount of energy and you can see that when when we'll see the on car push a bit later I've seen those those discs really working hard and stopping Andy so the runs completed the car making its way back down towards the area where it's positioned earlier on scene oh fantastic opportunity for the people that are gathered here on site at the UK of which for those of you watching on the world web stream is around about 4000 people almost that we've managed to cram in to Cornwall Airport nuclear we sincerely thank them for their support and assistance and even going slowly it's a piece of beauty as well mark it it looks at people so if something looks right it is right yeah and I think when we first came up with this design of Carthago we're not sure about the shape I mean it looks a bit strange the fin looks a bit big but when you see it in in there you see it going it just looks purposeful and then an expecting to say when we look at that side profile that that rear wing there is there is a sort of other elements to it that will go on to the chorus and when you need them as well so even the rear wing is not in finished configuration at this stage notice there's another strike that goes on ahead so if you like you follow the profile the fin going forward and that's very much where where it fares into the into the car down front so making his way back down the Delta taxiway where we saw him cross that previously across from echo to Charlie and onto the Alpha taxiway which brought him down to wall to runway 12 threshold but this time he will come all the way up the Delta taxiway and then when he gets up to the top that's when the engines will go off and well then I suppose the hard work starts for your team again which means you know downloading what you need off the car double-checking all of the componentry and everything else and and looking back at that data analyzing that because I'm assuming you're gonna use some of this data from the live test runs today and that might affect what you do on Saturday when the car next runs corrects you owning actually here and each time to taxi towards us here and here in the studio yes every one we do we gather data note this we're not doing this for fun if you like though we are gathering genuine data every time we do we Carly's not to influence and extracts these runs would have been quicker than reruns we did over the last couple of weeks and again we were to push that and we'll look to see where we need to get some more information it is really sort of a a rolling laboratory a vehicle of exploration and so Andy is making his way back in towards our studio area and as we look towards the car just coming up towards us now beautiful shots is it now completes its run and starts that process as we hear a beep engine shuts down so engines will shut down the team will then go to work you can hear that wine and just talk us through that one why do we hear the wine when the engines are just off Marcus able to do when they when they started to ignite so the same thing with you know we need to get up here at your airliner there's an awful lot of energy so just engine is a fantastic efficient and that they keep spinning so that wine you're hearing is the internal components the turbines and the compressors still spinning although there isn't any fuel going in there and you'll hear that and it will take a while to wind down but actually that's really useful for engines that drools an air air flow through the engine that starts to help cool it down it's it's worth noting that whilst this is you know great for you to learn a bit more about the car as engineers you know this is vital cockpit time for Andy as well because Formula One drivers will get thousands of laps in over the whole course of a weekend in the whole course of a season from from today - when potentially this car breaks the record and achieves its ultimate goal of not only inspiring a load of children and a load of children that the science technology engineering and maths are a great great subjects and they will and do get involved with but achieves its peak speed we've done it only good to see Andy in that cockpit for a couple of hours it's it no sir naught - a thousand - naught it's sort of like a minute and three-quarters so the engines we have are we're very fortunately you can matias loaned us loan decisions we're using they were out of the UK flight test program for the typhoon squadrons they only have 10 hours left on them at each if you like however for us that's a huge amount of time the thing that we have to be mindful of it is how many starts and stops we do so the things that if you like the age in engine if you like times gets hot and how many times it gets cold those heat cycles those heat cycles so why we've been at new key we started this engine probably about 18 times and we've probably done something like the low 30s in heat cycles and then we only be looking to do for the whole running of the car when we start going to a desert there'll be about 60 heat cycles in total for the whole direction the project to go from stationary to a thousand miles an hour so yes if people go is there another reserve driver well actually Andy needs as much time that correspond he needs to be able to work on that and final things he's been doing that the weeks he's been here running the car and that's actually key to part that the how a team works it needs to be you you never quite get to it the amount of time that he puts it nobody needs to feel like it's home for him and at the moment it must still feel sort of a bit strange and a bit unusual we're always learning out learning stuff about the car so things like no we were very route knowing so when he's running the car that he's sitting right under the jet intake so there is no jet fighter that has the pilot literally underneath where we've got no air rushing to that jet engine huge rates is right above his head so there was concern that would that be too noisy or be too much vibration we need to put sound deadening and there all those things yeah but actually analyse a notes it's better than he thought there are lots things on this car that he's going to actually that works or could we do that differently or could we change those switches and that's exactly why we're down here and I suppose as the as the the test program ramps up and we heard from from richard noble earlier on that you will be run in the car in 2018 at very high speed he was an understandably so not drawn to what that speed would be aware that would even take place and we we fully respect that but once you get to that stage where you're increasing the speeds on each occasion and looking back at that data every single test therefore becomes entirely different than the cars doing different things and Andy and yourselves have to learn all over again yes and that's got if you like the joy the project it is a rolling test but it's the laboratory we are always learning weakness oh we've the speed to be done over this weekend are going to be around about 200 miles an hour there will be the limit of what we can do on a runway with a rubber tire so to go fast we'll need a desert and to get data provided we get above as you start to approach 400 miles an hour things like the wheels so the aluminium Wheelz they'll stop working they'll stop working like normal wheels against the deserts they start to work more like rudders and then again took a huge amount of data at 400 then as you approach the speed of sound so we believe with this car in its current configuration we could easily get to somewhere upwards of 600 so potentially even 650 miles an hour depending on how that works and but it's the great unknown it's those things it is a prototype vehicle it is a whole test program and it's looking at when we start running desert how we see that drag obviously cells work you cannot be down here okay so with the car now just being inspected by the team Jenny cow is down there so as and when we get the opportunity Jenny will be straight in there to gauge some reaction from Andy green but before we do that we've got some fantastic replays of those two historic runs from the car and here's the first run of the car mark just just talk us through it so if we're looking only so-so Andy's applied full power the engine looks after itself we're very very lucky ej200 so as he puts his foot down you'll see the model nozzle change configuration and then as the engine built up to speed then you get the reheat so you see the flames out the back as he comes out of reheat the nozzle closes and it opens up again as he goes into idle I spotted there what when he got to of course half the way along the runway where we have that echo Charlie alpha cross of the runway you could just see a bit of movement in the car there so that's the bumpiest part I assumed I thought run my weight where you get that it is so you just see it there in the rear footage is actually people gonna know how much when you look at the springs on the car and the dampers on the car people assume how they're going to move now this is massively stiff Springs but actually they work pretty hard and I'm very lucky that we spent a lot of time working on that suspension geometry and it's worked beautifully and it's leveled out always like bumps on the runway especially it's this it's a it's a suspension it's the damping in particular I guess is it it's a dumping you wouldn't want to be porpoising porpoising with a car that's capable of doing 200 miles an hour in nine seconds and again just I I just don't get tired of it yeah you could show me that replay all day long forgetting forget what we're doing in the studio we almost don't want any more guests just keep running that very one because it looks like a great on board as well as we look on so you look at that speed it's that white needle that is going up to over there that's about 200 miles now he's going up to so it accelerates like nothing you've ever seen before and it's amazing that in that short period of time we really don't get the impression because we're looking out through the confident and looking at those dials but you don't get the impression of the work that Andy is doing whilst all of that is going on I was captivated by the image so he sat there so he's managing things like break pressures and break temperatures and as he brings the engine up checking things like fuel flows there will be steering going on so even a very slight crosswind he will have to correct the steering of the car as it goes down the runway so there's a huge right of input there's huge amount work even those those brief kind of 9 10 seconds there's a lot going on then when he comes in to stop the car he needs to be careful about brake temperatures and brake pressures he doesn't want to this car doesn't run ABS so it's down to Andy monitoring monitoring what he's doing so we've had a quick look at the the replays of the first run I think we can probably go back and look at some replays at the second run as well and then are there any differences that you can pick out from from what you've seen happen previously with the car any differences from run run want to run - I think run run - the second run looked it looks like didn't hold the reheat on for quite so long but I mean it it looks stunning I mean that view we got from it going down the runway starting this looks absolutely fantastic and you get a real idea of how quickly it's putting on the speed it's like a greyhound not a bloodhound it's early accelerates very very quickly and you can you can I suppose you can spool up the Jets a little bit quicker here on a tarmac surface than you oughta might be able to do when you're running in the desert because what you don't want to be doing is sucking in lots of lots of air off the desert floor straightaway and all of that dust and detritus so one of the things we looked at particular with where we position intake we was very much looking at what would happen when you see when you start operating that jet engine as to where it would be sucking sucking air from so actually with it quite high up we don't think they're very sensitive to debris and dust coming off the desert but actually it sounds silly we've actually looked at the dust so if you remember a few years ago there was the volcanic ash the aircraft couldn't fly through the ash that was due to that that dust they went through the engine as he goes through that those huge temperatures 2,000 degrees it would actually become glass within the engine block all those cooling holes would not be good with it and that would not be good even even as somebody that doesn't really understand jetting I know that wouldn't be good and but no we've tested the dust that comes off hack scheme panic is very fine it's like talcum but it's like nano nano particle sized and it will just blow through the engine so we're not not massively concerned with it with it ingesting that the dust off the surface looking on board shot there is is that windscreen misting by the look of things it might be we haven't so this am Salim so we design his car to run in in a desert in South Africa so I jokingly so when I'm coming down to the new Kia October we have something windscreen wipers on I'm lucky we don't need winter guards but yes we have actually looked at how we could do Dimas this is the rear if you need to see our suspension working sorry he comes on that's that's a great replay I do like that one because you can see the e flips coming back I think we've got one more replay that we can show before we head down to Jenny who is with the car and so here we go a long shot mark and you can see the perfect conditions you can see the heat shiver it's still chilly it's still autumnal here in the UK but a great long-range shot at the car I mean we couldn't have been more fortunate with the weather this morning for it to clear up like it has I mean this is just you know it's a beautiful day down here so the car comes to a halt that's its second and final run of the day here at UK and well Bloodhound SSC has done exactly what it's been doing since it arrived here at new key it is ticking all of the boxes it is performing as expected and now it's time to go down to the car and Jenny Gow who is going to gauge some reaction after those runs from Bloodhound SSC yeah absolutely how thrilling was that to see bloods hand in action Andy green is here he's just tried to find out the actual measurements and and the official timings for but and give us a first thought of of how that was brilliant that is by far the most difficult profile we've done it's the longest profile car was running for 21 and a half minutes so that's you know it's designed to run for like you know a two minute does it run not 20 minute one minute's driving around an airfield doing the the the complex maneuvering and to high-speed birds this is a car meant to do supersonic speeds and we're asking it to be a drag racer an airfield and despite that the car did exactly what we wanted to to reckon just over 200 miles an hour let me just let me just grab Joe Joe is here Joe is the man with official now you don't know these do you don't know the official time so tell us and return between two hundred two hundred and ten miles per hour run perfect that's exactly what we were looking for lift lifting off 130 just a fish a day 130 as the jet engines winding down it peaks at just over 200 and the break temperatures peaked at 750 800 something like that that's because it's also not only making the 5 ton cargo it's also stopping the the car and we were actually seeing for the first time not just smoke coming off the brakes we actually had a tiny flicker of flame on one of the brakes very Formula One anything is this is a proper fast car are there any I mean that's obviously a huge amount of data coming back for you to sort through what were the key things you were looking for obviously brakes amps as Andy points out peak speed the system related stuff that I care about those are the key ones really okay Joe I'm gonna let you go thank you so much for joining us so Andy and that's all all the key information that you wanted to know all tick boxes if that's exactly what we were looking for from this one yeah exactly so we came here to show the world blood Andy's go I can't think of a better way of doing that than that run not just a run two back-to-back runs longest runs we've done the highest speeds we've done most energy going to the brakes and the cars are spent yeah I can do all of this I'm designed for supersonic speed but this I can do easily just walk this way slightly because I just want to see the cockpit from where you've just climbed out of in this gorgeous and car as well just come round on this side so you can tell us about it I mean when you're actually in there it doesn't look like there's a huge amount of room and visibility looks incredibly limited well there's exactly the right amount of room and of course the visibility is to be following a straight line 12 mile long down the desert in-house keen pan in Navarre in in hexagon pan in South Africa you know very much the same way that we did in Nevada two years ago so I don't actually meet you know why do you need side windows in the car in case somebody overtakes you this isn't ever going to be a problem in this car it's it's more than enough astonishingly even with the limited visibility it is still more than enough for me to maneuver around some relatively tight corners on the airfield to avoid the runway lights and all the rest to it to line the car up and to actually make it look like let me just because I still actually have no idea what this looks like let me just ask the crowd for a second everybody saw that what did that look like because I don't get to see it thank you very much everybody can we give him a massive round of applause I was stood there fortunate enough to be on the runway and the sound the sight everything so visceral I mean when you're inside you know you can't get a real gate of what we all think but what do you feel what do you sense a lot of noise first of all I hear the compressor wind up so I can actually hear the engine noise then they huge surge of power as they reheat comes in in a 1.5 G 30 miles an hour per second it's equivalent nought to 60 in two seconds now forget your supercars forget your hybrid cars this is a high-performance race car and that of course just keeps going 60 90 120 got a liftoff now it keeps accelerating hundred and fifty 180 then as the engine winds down the speed starts come out them on the brakes already starting to warm the brake pedal up already starting to get that 40 50 bar starting to slow the car down watching the the distance counter wind up and looking for the the turn cues in distance so tremendous amount going under the cockpit quite a lot of you know even for a relatively slow speed run like this relatively high G loads compared to a normal Road car but the absolute confidence that this is in my humble opinion the best land speed record car ever made that is quite some statement as well if you look back over the history of land speed and and to get us to this point now and and the future I mean how excited are you about what's to come just cannot wait having demonstrated bladder Handy's go we've now got a clear plan to go faster next year we're still refining the details so I can't tell you exactly when that's going to be exactly how fast hold that thought will to shortly and we've more importantly got a car that's already proving it is not just as fast as we're expecting it's working better it's more reliable it's faster and the team is just brilliant because they are why this is working so well you know the engineers and and technicians and scientists who created designed and operate this car and ran it here today they are the ones who are they deserve the credit I'm lucky enough to drive it but I am genuinely privileged to be their team cool as a cucumber and you say the whole team is around I start gonna let you go I know you want to find out a little bit more and meet everybody else and talk to the right so the world's need about Andy congratulations and well done thank you very much and you everybody for coming to share our very special moment with Bloodhound Dee's go doing fastest ever runs here at Cornwall Airport nuki it's been a real privilege floor of us all of you ladies and gentlemen one last round of applause for Andy green well I did say that we were going to make history here at nuki Airport today and we've absolutely done that we have delivered on that and I'm sure that blood will continue to deliver as well it was powered by the ej200 jet engine a remarkable piece of kit so let's just have a look at Andy Greene's experience in the typhoon fighter Wade usually finds the ej200 they're Foxconn his bait and I'm just about to fly in the typhoon for the first time specifically I want to see how the ej200 engines work these are the engines I'm going to be using and the Bloodhound supersonic car next year as we take the car up to a new land speed record and ultimately attack 1,000 miles an hour [Music] first time phone flight and I've learned so much about these engines and the wonder they have the reputation that has been the best jet fighter in the world here at Coningsby quick reaction alert 24/7 protecting the UK they have got the best equipment in the world and I've just watched it work amazing experience [Music] well great to hear from Andy green there who has just been talking to Jenny cow but Mark Chapman still remains me Marines with me in the studio mark you're now going to have to go through all of that data that's been collected and reap rep the car ready for the same process again on Saturday just talk us through how this evening and tomorrow is going to look for the team so the first thing is just as Andy said congratulate the guys who worked on the corner and he did sterling job driving the car driving the profile wood asked him to drive you know he he is part of that team he's part of that process so he agreed last night this morning how fast he was gonna go what's the kind of speed he was going to work to and he nailed those completely and then what we're going to do now is prep the car we're going to look at that data as it comes off the car then also go back through nose to tail see if there's any damage anything's we've looked at things like the brake temperatures go through those look at the pads all all those things you'd normally do on a race car is what we do is just a bit bigger and then before it goes to well we look back to the house a bit later on this evening the hardened aircraft shelter will put some dryers on it to make sure it's kept drying the humidity and refuel it and charge the batteries and all those good things so it's ready to the runs again on Saturday it's been an early start it sounds as though it's gonna be quite a long day for you before you eventually get back to your accommodation it is but it's it's fantastic now to actually see as you look out the window and see the people and that looks on their faces we run the car that is why we're doing this project it is it's a fantastic privilege to be part of this team and to be part of a project that is that that exciting and actually you know me it makes me like a kid and seeing that car down the runway like like you you see it go and it and it makes you like a kid again it there's nothing like an enormous thank you to the team but in particular also an enormous thank you to all of our sponsors and supporters of this project that have made it possible to get to this point here today and we sincerely thank them from the bottom of our hearts because without it we couldn't have done it Jenny Gao has made a way into the crowds of Thrones and thousands of people that are here at Cornell Airport Mookie to gauge some more reactions on those two historic runs yes absolutely as you can see Andy's just making his way down the you have people who has stood here they really want to meet him there's lots of people waiting for autographs and all sorts of action happening as you can see there's people that ran all the way from the runway across to here to have a chance to meet Andy to see him and to try and understand some of the science behind what we've been seeing today in all the engineering I'm just gonna come into the crowd because over here there's lots of people with them all sorts of hello how are you doing your ice was that fun are you on your holidays yeah is it going well so far yeah oh yes is we like that well done there's good stuff um right gentlemen I just wanted a quick word with you guys how is that your first experience of watching bloodhound and seeing Andy in the background it was a great fantastic run did really well happy to see these boots 200 miles an hour was it what you expected it was really loud actually was that were you surprised by quite how loud it was out there yeah it was fantastic was amazing see such an achievement it's really really good have you been following the whole journey of bloodhounds we were at the launch event in London a couple years ago and seeing Bristol being constructed it was really cool then the engineering teams are fantastic as well they're so knowledgeable and they're so willing to give their time to talk to the public about it so yeah it certainly it's not just isn't it about the land speed record about the fastest vehicle in the world it's also about educating people bringing on a whole new generation hopefully of engineers you can see this gentleman has the model just hold up the model for us he has the model and on the side it says your driver Andy green Andy is a Royal Air Force pilot in 1997 he drove the thrust SSC to the current world record of 763 miles an hour and they're going to thank you very much sir they're going to look to try and get to a thousand miles per hour in this very vehicle that you saw here today ladies gentlemen how it how was that for you enjoyable very exciting and my young brothers part of the team ah excellent what does he do he's an engineering manager so that's pretty cool so you got a family interest in this as well as just a and and when did you first start getting into bloodhound when he started on the project a few years ago when it comes to understanding what's happening and engineering us I mean it's pretty complex but they're making it quite easy for us to get into aren't they yeah very much so it's a good publicity exercise as well good communications exercising good for schools are you surprised by how many people are down here today no I know the interest that's been generated in this so pleased with the code that's come out in the support has been given now this gentleman behind you was just shaking something he was quite surprised by it I mean it's a great turnout so amazing isn't it unbelievable has it lived up to your expectations yes absolutely that's good stuff okay I'm just going to come along here there's a hello how are you you all right how was that very good and was it exactly what it was it louder I didn't really know I was gonna be like but was very fast and where have you come down from today I'm near Middlesbrough wow that's a really long journey isn't it that must have taken hours and hours but it was worth it yeah excellent and next up for blood town are you gonna be at every step of the way now I'm not sure if I'd like to and it are you together so dads I mean how impressed are you by the fact that they're reaching out to all sorts of people well that's what is fantastic all about it I mean there is a superb event and to encourage everybody not just children but everybody get interested in engineering it's fantastic and make sure to be British as well I mean the land speed record is such a traditionally British record as well oh it is there's one worth having as well next up hopefully in a future we're looking at you know going really fast next year and then final destination South Africa to see if they can actually break that land speed record I mean how significant is that for for everybody really not just the UK well I remember when thrust SSC broke the land speed record I was working in Switzerland and everybody knew about it this is going to be even bigger so it's going to be fantastic good stuff well thank you for talking to us these guys are trying to get hold of somebody I'm just going to make sure that mark oh come on just your favor as we walk down this line because I want to try and get as many people on as possible because so many people have just loved today and getting him then at all there's a big screen over there with a stage on it I'm going to see if I can talk to these guys hello everybody how are you doing your rights yes thank you now where have you come from today that's good Ascot let's just sound the road from me we could have shared a lift if I'd have known are you on your holidays yes and how cool is what you've just seen I want all three of your opinion on a scale of 1 to 10 how cool is that 10 10 10 pretty cool when that's less I think that's clear to see and you've got a front row Vista I suppose of the car itself what do you make of the car I think it's very nice because we're sleek model and very aerodynamic have you been inside the education zone learning all about aerodynamics and you know engineering some of it not all of the explored the whole area plenty to look at that's for sure and what about yourself what do you think stands out just the size of it it's so big it's a lot bigger than you'd actually expect it to be and did you get everything you've got good new here did you get a really good view of when it was actually doing it two runs yeah I've got some good pictures and we got a video of it as well so we can take them back with us and are you going to go back to school and tell everybody that you here yeah I'm actually doing a project on it at school so I can show everyone and they'll all know about it that's awesome so does that mean that you quite like to go into serve engineering in a science background yeah that's one of my interests I like it so yeah maybe in the future and have you guys had a chance to meet the dr year Andy maybe he'll come and say hello in a little bit that's all right yeah okay thank you so much for talking to enjoy wait you give it give everybody away because you're on the big screen and going around the world live let's come down here and see if we can talk to these people hello ah someone from the BW RDC how are you doing you all right having a great time this has been out of this world hasn't it it's absolutely amazing achievement it's a real privilege to be on this side of the barre I have to say that I mean just tell me your perspective what the run was like we say you know something it's going over 200 miles an hour that's for starters I know it's gonna be progressive from now on in but we're here with a load of cars that can do 200 miles now but it was a bit different wasn't it I mean nor 200 miles an hour in about eight seconds and then the deceleration taking even longer really yeah frightening and you can you can just about see all the media have come in now they're all taking pictures of driver and I mean it's just fantastic isn't it that Britain and works yeah a British effort completely scientist your engineers your man is he a pilot or a driver yeah well this is a good question I've had this debate as well pilot or driver and they're saying it's a driver because it is a four-wheeled car but he is a pilot in his day job so I think we could we can use on either and okay his skill is when he's gonna have a nerve steal you know what he got out of that car not even a little shake I mean he is cool as a cucumber fantastic it is fantastic well thank you so much for coming down I hope you've enjoyed it thank you for talking to us to design the next Adam speed record car are you 9 year old Alex 1,500 miles now he wants it to go with two typhoon engines and the aerodynamicist and the chief engineer has already wished him luck that's amazing I'm guessing then you're inter is it engineering all cars or both both and what is it about this project that's excited you so much it's being able to go one of the fastest cars in the world and it I've been interested in cars for practically all my life who got you into cars then maybe like cars love that and then when you look at this car what does it make you think of Wow I love that and when you saw it on the runway what did you think it's pretty spellbinding isn't it very special to be here yeah and when it comes to going to school are you good we've just spoken to another bottle boy he's going to go to school and tell everybody about it when I go back he'll be my birthday I'm going to be bringing listen and tell them more about it who else you gonna get to sign that piece of paper try and agree and maybe Richard noble love it well congratulations I hope you've enjoyed it and I look forward to reading about your challenge okay thank you so much so that's the reaction from down here a lot of excited people ladies and gentlemen how good was that yeah pretty good down here it's wonderful to see the reaction and the the Bloodhound effect we heard earlier on today the bloodhound and effect and I think anybody that's been here that has seen these historic runs being made by the car is at the moment really feeling that Bloodhound effect and that's the effect that we want to spread as well so keep your tweets coming in hashtag bloodhound disco hashtag bloodhound this go I mentioned earlier on its that it's not just about the engineers and about the ambassadors but one of the key fundamental parts of this project is our fantastic supporters that we've gone under lighted to say that head of brand for Cisco Terry Donovan has now come to join us in the studio welcome along Terry and we're all part of history now are we an exciting day it has been amazing how exciting to be here to see all of that in action amazing Cisco you know vital in providing some of the other video and networking systems that we're going to utilize as part of this project so just sort of tell us about you're involved with the project the brand and and what you're involved in in in the project for because I know you run your own stem program as well don't you absolutely there's a few ways that were involved we we really share a lot of the values that and the Bloodhound team have in terms of you know reaching out in STEM subjects and inspiring new generations in engineering and maths and technology and that really is something that we share a lot at Cisco so we really wanted to be part of this project and we're involved in a few ways so we're providing a lot of the technology that's kind of here today helping us to get out to everybody out there and connect everybody with the action we're also providing technology to the Bloodhound team and back home in Bristol to help them to connect actually with all of their sponsors and with students across the globe so really just helping to connect all of that and then internally we also already have a stem ambassador group and network that are going out to schools so we've trained a lot of those guys to em to go out they know the bloodhounds story they can take that to schools and really inspiring new generations and helping the Bloodhound projects along the way so really exciting to be part of it so a lot of those shared values and also you know some of that is to ensure that you know you have that resource moving forward and those skills in your business in another five and ten and fifteen and twenty years time absolutely very much so yeah very much part of the passion and part of what we as an organization is trying to achieve yeah absolutely we have lots of other programs going on and everything very much about really inspiring those new generations indeed today's the first time I guess in unity in the car room yes the engineering team have seen some dynamic runs but there are very few people that have seen that go and run in the flesh until today your thoughts on it it's just amazing I mean the adrenaline rush and the sound I mean it really got your organs pumping and I could really feel the speed and power very exciting it's so great to look around and see everyone's enthusiasm on and and wondering what they're going to be and how they could be part of projects like this and others moving forward really exciting and if we are as wild as it as we are with the experience in life that we have yeah for the children for that that the actual people we are looking for this to inspire and and have that inspiration and that legacy that's going to continue the wow factor for our key audience you know stem ambassador us with what we're trying to do the wow factor for them must be enormous Oh amazing incredible I mean what more could you could you ask to be part of something like this and it really is inspirational and it really kind of offers up the opportunities that are out there for people to explore and get into doesn't it I mean it so it sightings so exciting to see you know all the all the wide eyes and and hear all of that emotion with everyone here today really exciting just tell us about that the size and the scale of Cisco as a business never a global business which which is is enormous in reality just you know for the people that made me not familiar just the scale of what's this go do it was in lots of different areas and a lot of the technology that we're bringing to the Bloodhound team to help run their business you know we we are essentially a networking and video partner for the Bloodhound guys so we're helping with with essentially connecting people and through their business with our networking products our security collaboration products you know enabling people through WebEx and telepresence to you know connect and and be inspired and learn about what the Bloodhound program is all about so yeah we we have a lot of those products that are helping them you know run the business and bring their story out to the world so you're lots of networking Meraki collaboration security lots of different elements actually of the Cisco organization that are really pulling together to try and help bring this to life on I assume you know with the amount of supporters that we have corporate supporters in the project that some of those corporate supporters are probably Cisco customers as well or they said isn't it summarization networking going on a subject that you can get so many people involved with we've got a few of our customers here with us today obviously very exciting for us all to be here and witness it but yeah it's really inspirational I know on our own you know social channels and so on there's a lot of engagement around this subject today so we're yeah excited to see the next steps excited to get closer to South Africa it's four more years and I would like to remember from when I was at school but if ever there were an exciting maths lesson something blue and orange and 13 meters long for me is the most exciting mathematics or physics lesson you could ever have and didn't they get to the end of that run way faster than we were all expecting yeah I knew it wouldn't last for long it didn't last very long at all and it's great to hear Andy's reaction as well and you know it is it is a team and when we say a team it's it's not just about the car about the end years it's about yourselves as organizations that are supporting us it's about everybody that's on site here everybody that's looking around and listening in on the live webstream as well around the world you know this is a an enormous family and and the very reason that everybody is here today or is on the web stream is because they're passionate about what we are trying to do which is push the boundaries which is to try and leave a legacy which is to inspire that next generation and hopefully create a new land speed of customers a lot of kids a lot of ambassadors that are really taking the message out there there's a there's a lot of people really focused and inspired by this and helping to bring it to fruition so yeah exciting times ahead I think I assume you've been down to the BTC to the pod and Technical Center and seen the car in build what's the next thing for you after this you know obviously the car will continue to develop down at the BTC with lessons learned from this weekend it will then go for its very high-speed runs in 2018 location and speeds to be announced at the design stage will you also potentially get the opportunity to see it do it it's its world record runs absolutely I mean that's what we're working towards right but in the meantime our real focus is obviously to continue spreading the word through our stem and Bloodhound ambassadors and we're also helping to make sure that people are updated on the story of bloodhounds so there's a channel called Cisco bloodhound TV and we're working with the team to make sure that there are regular episodes keeping people updated and they have been today already on all the developments that are happening all the new stories that are you know all the milestones that are reached within the team so we're going to be continuing with that making sure that everyone can see every step of progress along the way and and and really keeping close and helping to we're so yeah keep the inspiration going within your Cisco STEM program when you're ambassadors are they old Cisco employees they have sort of a CSR a corporate social responsibility policy that you have it allows them to to go away and deliver those sorts of things as part of a regular jobs lately so we have their whole bunch of volunteers within the organization who are trained to the stem ambassadors and amongst those obviously a pretty big bunch of guys who are really excited by bloodhounds so they've been trained separately we've worked with the Bloodhound team to make sure they have that in their stack of goodies to take out to schools so yeah that and that list is growing and I'm sure after today we're going to get a lot more people kind of wanting to go through and be trained and the whole stem and ambassador program for us will inevitably grow more so yeah good times well I'm sure I can speak on behalf of everybody from Bloodhound SSC we thank you for your continued support with the project as we do all of our other organizations that are involved as well we wish you all the best with it and thank you Terry for joining us in the studio Thanks well whilst we have heard from from Terry Donovan from Cisco I think that Jenny cow has managed to catch up with another very important man involved in the Bloodhound project she's with Ben Evans yes absolutely now Ben you have a lot to do with the aerodynamics which is one of the key factors with bloodhound they're making it go fast yeah so I've been working on this car now for over ten years I mean the car is the shape it is today because of all the computer modelling work that we've been doing at Swansea University today was the first time I've actually seen the car in the flesh working it's quite it's quite surreal to be honest I mean this car has been on my computer screen for a decade today I got to see it run and it's yes it is it's a bizarre surreal experience and just tell us when it fired up and started to make its way down that runway what were your emotions what we're feeling yeah it was emotional because this has been a theoretical thing for me for a long time you know I'd be looking at the science behind it making sure aerodynamically this thing is going to stay on the ground at a thousand miles an hour that's basically be my job along with Ron Ayers today we saw the car going I start to believe that we're actually going to do this this is the first step in a journey towards a thousand miles an hour now that's the big question is there today went just over 200 miles now around 208 210 miles an hour and and the effect that the aerodynamics will have it this speed compared to you know multiply that by five it is going to be a different effect so how much can you gain from this yeah absolutely this is just the starting point aerodynamically we're just scratching the surface right at the moment so these these low speed tests are all about does the car work so the system's worked at the brakes work the reality is it's not till we got to South Africa and really start pushing it but from an aerodynamics point of view we start asking some of the really big questions which is what happens when it starts generating shockwaves you know we've done all the computer modeling we are confident that this is a safe car to propel and reach to a thousand miles an hour but it starts getting really exciting when we take it to South Africa you talk about shockwaves can you just tell the people at home or the likes of me what that actually mean so basically I mean once anything is traveling faster than the speed of sound it becomes impossible for the vehicle itself to tell the air ahead of it it's coming so instead of everything happening nice and smoothly eridan I'm in an aerodynamic sense you have these sudden changes in the properties of the air so a sudden pressurization of the air and that sudden pressurization is what we call a shock wave now what we've been doing for a decade is trying to predict where these shock waves are going to form on the vehicle what they're going to do to the vehicle and what they're going to do to the surface that the vehicle is running across now we are confident that this is capable of a thousand miles an hour today was the first step towards proving that and safety wise it's a big thing isn't it we've seen a lot of land speed records attempt to make sure that this stays on the ground is that the biggest challenge for you guys well it's it's probably more complicated and how do you keep it on the ground the question is how do you keep the vertical forces on the car within safe enough bounds that it stays on the ground but you don't drive it into the relatively soft surface will be running on a hack skin pan we could end up with the world's fastest plow if it's much downforce so so so actually managing the shockwave so that from zero to a thousand miles an hour from Mac zero to Mac one point three vertical forces on the the car I'm not going to allow it to lift off but I'm not going to press it into the ground that's the real aerodynamic challenge and one of the biggest changes that I suppose well see was a car that you can predict already is the body work because obviously these tires the wheels that are on here on the ones that you run when you go to South Africa they would be different because here it's tarmac surface it certainly won't be that in South Africa yeah so we moved to solid metal wheels when we go to South Africa which will allow us to put more bodywork paneling on to get around the front wheels at the back particularly fact the strongest shockwaves that will be acting on the car or at the back wheels of the car at a thousand miles an hour we're predicting that a third of the vehicles drag we'll be because of those rear wheels so we'll be wrapping a fairing around those rear wheels and around the suspension system so the back of the car is going to change quite a bit between what you've seen today at nuki and what you'll see next year in South Africa and just to come back to today I mean it's it's got to be a pretty special day for you personally when you've seen ten years of hard work come off so successfully but when you go to bed today will you be thinking about what's happened today already thinking about the next thing I think when I go to bed tonight I can be so tired I will go straight to sleep but ya know I mean I'm thinking thinking about the next step I mean I I want to see this car go faster you know this this car is capable of a thousand miles an hour I believe that we scratched the surface today it ticked all the boxes it needed to tick and it's just given us confidence that you know we can take the next step now well congratulations for all your hard work the hours that you've poured into this and for it to be so successful today thank you very much thank you so from here let's cross back over to you in the studio because I mean the atmosphere still absolutely buzzing well great to him for some more reaction and Ben Evans who was out surfing would you believe are in the coral seas earlier on so to understand fluid dynamics and and how water moves around the surfboard compared to air moving around the car as we've just seen from bloodhound now somebody who knows a lot about speeds and is here to understand and help us appreciate some of the things that have been going on out there is Molly marriage from Top Gear magazine so welcome along although you might just need your microphone just a little bit closer to your cheering well we'd be fine with that now it's great to see you along here I know from from what we were just discussing off my training you have a sneaky look at the car run a couple of weeks ago so you're not a newbie today but you're still wowed I am completely actually it's so good I just said it is you take away a snapshot of the car going straight past you with the cones of flame out the back and it just looks so special so spectacular so unlike anything else you see you get to drive all of the latest Ferraris and MacLaren's and I'm hugely jealous and all of those other things whilst there goes your day job is so the obvious question is for you with all of that sort of experience in your regular working environment how does Bloodhound SSC compares I think you've done that comparison recently I have I think well last time I came down here I spoke to the engineers and I said I just want to know how fast it goes I don't know what the acceleration figures are so they gave me this enormous ly complicated printout of all the stats for the g-force acceleration and the time against distance and the speeds achieved and what I did a story comparing to how how it compares to a McLaren 720 which is one of the fastest road cars we've ever tested and that did not 60 in 2.7 seconds and a hundred miles an hour and 5.3 and we thought that was astonishing and up so up to about 50 or 60 miles now there's not a lot of difference between them actually the McLaren is actually ahead until 50 60 miles an hour but it's then of course a road car starts feeling the effects of aerodynamics and everything else and starts slowing down quite considerably and of course at that speed blood hand is only just getting into its stride so the fact I really liked is that they took the McLaren 8 point something seconds to do 50 miles an hour to 150 miles an hour and that's a very very very fast car a bloodhound did it in 3.1 and it's that it's that one-and-a-half G acceleration you're piling on 30 miles an hour every second the cars running and that's just devastatingly fast and then you think it's going to carry on doing that yeah all the way to a thousand miles an hour it's it's that acceleration curve you know there is some data on the blue-toned SSC website that sort of shows you what the acceleration and deceleration looks like they're not nice smooth curves are they because alikom like a road car way you accelerate and it's a fairly linear straight forward acceleration curve because we're using jet engines which will then have afterburner rocket motors with stage 1 and stage 2 ignition when we run the car fully and our acceleration is continuous as you say well exactly and I I think I'm amazed Melanie has for 600 700 horsepower I think this is frightening and then you realize that the jet engine alone out there has the equivalent of 58,000 horsepower and then when it's running fully it'll be about 135,000 equivalent horsepower and you're thinking that is just barmy and that's the power one man just one man do the qe2 I've had almost the same amount of brake or so and think how many people were on that get through the seas you've now seen the car run you were here for the test a few weeks ago so did it meet your expectations did it do what you thought it would do were you actually it did way more than I thought it could do and I hope everyone else can appreciate what this approach surprised me most about it is I've been talking to I've known mark Chapman and the guys for about nine or ten years now and through all of that I remember talking to them saying well we're not going to be very car fast up to a hundred miles an hour we'll be getting you know fifteen seconds to get to 100 miles an hour and I came down here and watched it for the first time I think we can see just replays now mark and it's just how fast it goes off the line how quickly the afterburner lights and then how fast it disappears them and they'll have really how quickly you end up shutting down the afterburner and of course it's still accelerated still pushing through that was that was something that I've I picked up on when I was talking to Andy a couple of days ago and there is it is another angle where we can look at that run is it yeah he shuts off at 130 miles per hour but by the time the signal has gone from where he is back to the jet engine to do what he wants it to do the car has then reached 200 miles an hour and that that's a green considering how quick that response is yeah and I wondered just how terrifying that would be from me and what an ordinary mortal when you come off the throttle and nothing happens it just keeps accelerating for another 70 miles an hour right up to the point and you're well you pretty good your feet on the brakes and you're thinking it's still not slowing down it must be quite alarming unless you're used to flying fighter jets for the RAF in your day job it's very disconcerting I would have thought and I suppose that the flip side of that is that he's got the same issue at the bottom end of the of the room because he's running carbon fibre discs yeah he won't have her he would have been able to do a warming up lap to get some temperature in numbers we see in Formula One so he's then as you all know were the cars that you drive which will happen you know ceramic carbon discs and things aren't like you you've got to get the temperatures into those discs to get them to work properly and he's not able to do that in this so he puts his foot on the brake and it takes a while again yeah Engineers that one of the problems and he was having initially was he wasn't getting the brake temperature in because he didn't hadn't quite appreciated how hard he needed to press the brakes early on and the engineers came in said no just stamp on them you've got to get heat into them you've got to get that with retardation through the brakes so when we look through it the runs you know I was quite surprised when when we get to this sort of the middle part of the runway really so he's running down the runway twelve and half the way along runway twelve was where he did the figure of eight there's an access road which he had to cross to get from one side of the runway for the other and when you see the suspension movement on that car I was quite surprised how much it moved considering it's a five ton car exactly and I think I've seen from the engineer's saying they're running it's surprisingly soft and they were surprised it surprised how much and a movement and compression this they've actually engineered into the suspension and that has if that has to cope with it with enormous forces when when you think of I suppose a normal Road car with the aerodynamics that are flowing over bats then we largely look on road cars to create a car which has a fairly neutral handling but it gives you confidence in the corners with a reasonable amount of aerodynamic and mechanical grip whereas in stark contrast we want to go quickly the one thing we don't want is any drag at all because that will slow the car down so we don't want that aerodynamic grip because we're going in a straight line but the flip side is we certainly don't want any uplift as well so it's it's what's the engineering some of its transferable from the road card if it's our totally alien exactly and that's it that's interesting and I think it's on the whole you see you can't see any relevance to road cars in it what I do like is the fact that they have thought about some of those projects and I like the fact that they're in Italy they had the Jaguar v8 in there as the fuel pump just to pump the rockets the rocket fuel into the into the hybrid rocket and now they're talking about the announcement today of courses that they're going to replace that probably with an electric motor which actually has benefits because it allows them to plan to place the battery packs elsewhere around the car to power the pump to drive the to drive the motor the rocket fuel through well I can I think you know the honesty of the project has has always been is that you know as and when new technologies appear we will consider if that is more appropriate to incorporate in the car and I think yeah the announcement as you alluded to this morning is that they are going to look and see there's no confirmation but they're going to look and see whether battery technology has now reached the pointed that we could put an electric motor into power that fuel pump and and as Mark Chapman referred to now this is a rolling laboratory every time the car goes out we learn something more about it and it's been as broad air suggested 11 years since they first spoke about it to where we are today and technology moves on so you've got you've got to be over minded exactly and I think it's I think that's really good is that you can see this as a team at the cutting edge that doing its live engineering and that's what's lovely they know there's no rivalry there's no it's not like Formula one where there's secrecy involved and they're very tentative about how they deal with them deal with everything for bloodhound they can be open they can be as transparent as you like and tell you this thing this information because there's no secrecy involved because there's no one else out there doing anything like this watch that's all day and I'm sure that it's going viral at the moment hashtag bloodhound is go hashtag bloodhound this go is what do you need to be tweeting because we want everybody in the world still about this so we even know now of course we've got four G in the hacks game plan as well which is part of the legacy of this project you followed the project for it for a long period of time is there anything with your involvement with the engineers or now your knowledge with the cars that's built up that's just really blown your socks off I think there's so many little details that's what I love about it I love things like me they found when the thrust SSC ran that they had the temperatures that the wheel rim got so hot and the G from the g-force involved that they'd actually get stones embedded in the wheel and then how they're gonna deal with that this time a hex key and it's all those details in right how the end you know at how they making the ej200 engine which is obviously only designed as an aero engine how they the complications they've had to go through to make it run in a car when it all it wants to do is think it's in an aeroplane so it's astonishing the engineering all those little details are just fabulous designer ej200 to work with nice thin air not with soupy stuff that we out down here where we all live and if the call came mmm would you oh I I would love love love it just just to sit in there and just open the throttles a little bit just to do a little bit I think anyone here wouldn't know it astonishing to have absolutely I saw there was a one of the cameras wandering around earlier on and it was an engineer in there clearly working doing some bits but it was sat in the seat jealous I'm jealous of your job I'm jealous of his job that seat has been designed around Andy green and ugly know that the steering wheel is 3d printed to Andy's hand shape and all of that sort of thing it's just a lovely lovely touch until you're as enthusiastic and as bigger anorak as I am a very loving and I think maybe maybe just one final question from is that we've we've seen numerous new technologies find their way into probably initially hyper cars and into super cars and ultimately into the road cars that we all drive today do you think their mother will be some of this technology that's coming out of bloodhounds that will find their way into the road cars of the future I think it'll be very very interesting it's difficult to say fit for Saul I think if they if they can get the electric motor to work then I think that has relevance to road cars and it's always very interesting if they they're giving this engineering a very high-stress environment looking at where that can ultimately lead to for road cars is there has great potential well thank you very much Holly much for joining us in the studio delighted to see you here and Jenny Gao has managed to catch up with somebody else she's caught up with somebody from Oracle it's time to chat to christen Jenny Gail yes I've got Chris and Caroline down here from Oracle and we've just been having a good old gossip actually about what it's like to work on this project and and then we'll human side of things really which is that you know kids children friends family everybody can get involved with this and Chris you said you've got two kids that have been following and expect quite closely absolutely yeah well I've got three three children actually my two boys Charlie and Allie there's eight and six and they're obsessed with this Charlie's definitely wants to be the next Bloodhound driver and he's been inventing new cars that could go potentially even faster so he's really enthusiastic about this it's a great project I love that now just tell me and we'll Oracle's involvement with the project is so we are collecting the data off of the 550 sensors across the car we're providing into the engineers so that they can do some analysis and see what's going on every step of the way and we're also providing that to stem so that's provided out to live to the education across the world actually an education is such a big part of this project we we keep reiterating it's not just about going fast that's kind of the added bonus you get with it but you know the education zone here is full of activities that people can get involved in and it's about sharing this experience as we go through from you know starting out to 200 miles an hour today to you know the final runs in South Africa and there's a lot of valuable information that you can share totally so when you go into the Bristol HQ where they're building the car the number one aim for this is to increase its stem to inspire a generation and to go a thousand miles an hour in those in those three orders and it's just it's just humbling that we can help with Oracle provide this data and we've when we've created the solution when Kristin and a set of crates of the solution we've we kept that in mind so actually inside the car is three or four and raspberry pies and there's a micro bit in there so literally you could go down to any high street hardware store and you could buy this stuff and you could recreate the data solution that the Bloodhound data's being pulled from and then obviously that goes into the Oracle cloud to analyze and now Chris when it comes to data in here I mean in real terms for the layman on the street how much data is coming back what can you see him in what's being analyzed well it's quite amazing that there's over 500 sensors on this car and you know at this some of these are sending out many many readings a second 50 or so readings a second and it just allows us to look at a variety of perspectives so you can see the acceleration that's being experienced by undie when he's in the cockpit I think the maximum values on that were around like 1.4 G's so than one and a half he's a bore and about one and a half his body weight pushing back on the puppet power of that engine and we can see what's happening with the brakes is massive high temperatures coming through and it's slowing down obviously the speed is the keeping everyone's interested in but there's so many other sensors that we can learn from and we can look all the correlations and what happens you know we're noticing dips in the runways based on different stress and strain levels in there in the pushrods on the suspension on the strain gauges attached to the jet as well so there's there's there's you know the idea is we get that data out there we provide some of its we provide some views that help people look at it and you know you can take it yourself and you can have a look and see what you think you can find based on that and see what we can learn was that important to you guys to have this very interactive format of data that other people can utilize totally so that was the aim and the ambitions of bloodhound was to have live data being pushed out to the world so kids anywhere can just download it and manipulate the data and play with the data themselves and that was a real key thing for Oracle when we came on board now just tell me the other thing I don't know if Mark the cameraman can just angle up to look at the wing and but the wing is one of the important factors of this because it's enabled people to actually sponsor it and get involved and someone contacted me yesterday saying oh yeah I'm on there look for me and and I was early I said oh it's quite difficult to look for you might be there a while but Oracle have simplified the avenue we have so we got involved at a data level and then we actually got involved a customer experience level as well so one of the faint feedbacks was that people couldn't find their name on the fin because it's about twenty five thousand names up there so we have created a search engine where you can just search for your name and it will locate your name on the fin amazing that makes it a very easy experience it doesn't say and so going forward Oracle's and you know involvement with the project and your keenness to see it work yeah absolutely I mean this is this is just a great exciting project to be involved in I only want to carry on taking it further we'd love to see the car going even faster I'm sure you'll see the car going a lot faster even next year as well so definitely yeah ask a stupid question the faster the car goes does that give you more and more data you start to learn more every time you reach you know a new threshold you start to understand what happens to the other parts of the car as you're breaching each of those thresholds you know they're not going to go into a thousand miles an hour straight away they want to learn they go develop from that so yeah absolutely every time they get to run it each time is more data each time gives us more opportunity to learn and the faster they go you know they can see what happens in different parts of the car and make sure that I'm be safe at the end of the day which is got to be a key objective as well obviously there's a lot of data online on the website that people can look at but if they want to get involved here while they're in Newquay and at the airport there are some ways that they can interact aren't they there are so we have a mobile web interface you can look up it's on the bloodhound website or you can follow any of the Oracle social media and it's on there and you can look at Andy's live dashboards and you can look at all of the previous runs data videos everything and virtual reality is a key way forward at the moment and I've been told that if I go over in that direction I might be able to put on a set of goggles and get a little bit up close and personal with Andy absolutely so if you go to the Oracle stand we have a VR experience where I and I was completely excited when this little six-year-old put them on this morning and his face when he saw that he was in the cockpit with Andy green and you can literally do a 360 you can look around and you can travel with Andy on one of his runs so cool and Chris : thank you so much for talking to us and sparing with I my name I hope you enjoy the rest of the journey with blood town as Oracle absolutely thank you very much thank you for having us so these guys are now ambassadors they're going around to schools they're doing all sorts of talks to try and embrace bloodhounds and Oracle's association with that and I tell you what Marc the sun's coming out Suns coming up which means scarf off shades on for Jenny Gow as well and yeah that's the bloodhound effect what we're seeing and what we're hearing is that bloodhound effect as it begins to spread and that's what we want hashtag bloodhound is go well we've heard from a couple of our supporters another one has come to join us in the studio as well now in its kettle pania who is the assistant director of business engagement for EP SRC that has come to join us so thank you for taking the time out of your day to come and join us first of all I think you know we're talking about the Bloodhound effect and I think you've got the Bloodhound effect I'm you're looking at the smile on your face you've enjoyed yourself already absolutely and you know we I work for EPS Elsie said one of the research councils and we have the privilege of funding research across the country but really to come here and see British engineering in action is you know phenomenal really phenomenal just tell us about your you're as a business your your involvement in the project and what you've done and what you're you're looking in terms of you know the ethos of the project why that matches your your business yes so as a research council we fund long term research with impact and so you know British universities or the leading universities in the world really to do engineering and so our role was ready to from the Swansea group and to do the year at aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics it was all done all those big number CFD we've supported that but we've also more recently supported the education program so we've had a role there in providing support for the groups to go out into the schools and to engage schoolchildren and then over the long term obviously what we're wanting to do a very keen to build the skills and the talent that UK engineering needs and something like this is an iconic program like this has a real impact for the long-term well I think you know in UK engineering but also you look at the globally you know it may well be that you know it's an American owned company that's got a base in the UK but if you delve that little bit deeper it's it's largely you know the English people that are that the high levels of our engineering and medical science and pushing those boundaries so you know we and we can see that skills gap still looming only in the future all the projections show that there is a skills gap unless we were able to do something about it so this sort of work really does in in a real way it leads to new knowledge new understanding but it also then starts to build around it a kind of an ecosystem of public awareness of the importance of engineering and science and then there are translational benefits that go out of you mentioned CFD CFD in cars but you think about transplant airflow and think about blood flow in the body the same fundamental principles of fluid dynamics apply there so in a sense this work could lead to lots of spinouts and lots of other benefits in areas that you might not envisage at the start are you are you already seeing some sort of some tangible results as a result of your involvement in your direct involvement in the project well it's difficult for me to comment on directly I know the research groups are saying that lots of interesting outcomes you know there it's not just CFD even in terms of light weighting materials design you think about where this might go so this is bloodhound an iconic vehicle but across the automotive sector if we could get more streamlined designed cars and that will help in fuel efficiency in years to come we're trying to move to a low-carbon economy so in a sense all of these things are in too late it's very difficult the car today I'm guessing as with many people it's the first chance you've had to see the car run I'm not sure where he had the opportunity to see it whilst he was in build at the factory but it would be a difficult person to go away from here today and not have been impressed with what we've seen standing still let alone when the car was heading down the runway absolutely I have the privilege to actually go on the inside and get a few photos taken quite close to the car but I wasn't that old I'm not that old so I don't remember the moon landing that I kind of feel this has the same aura to it you know the moon landing the Apollo programs and what followed in terms of the real enthusiasm that came with that those sorts of programs and I feel you know I feel proud it's a British it's done here in the UK as you said obviously with global impact and I kind of feel that this could have the same effect as that the moon shots did all those years ago well I think you know looking at the information that we've been receiving whilst we've been on air since 10:00 o'clock this morning we've been broadcasting locally but of course we started streaming to the world there at about half-past twelve UK time you know we are seeing already some fantastic feedback coming through and people doing what you know the generation that we're trying to focus on it are engaging or engaging and they're engaging in the way that they know best which is social media nowadays and and to be able to quantify it with social media hits and and tweets and everything else you know that's that's quite a strong message isn't it that I assume as an organisation satisfies you that you are focusing your resources in the right area yes that we are and that the the research that we fund and the researchers that we fund are accessible that science and engineering technology is fun as well as it having real impact globally and those are some of the key messages that project like bloodhound is enables enables us to put across what do you see sort of moving forward for your organization's and your relationship with bloodhound ders as we head towards 2018 where we know the car is going to be going for very fast runs speeds as we say as yet to be confirmed locations yet to be included so confirmed so there's there's some exciting times ahead yes I think the research programs are still in the long-term research so that research is ongoing still a number of questions I'm sure will arise from the run today that will need to be looked at and people need to build on that as we go forward and again that's where some of those people that you've had that relationship in terms of the funding you mentioned Swansea University and there are other universities involved in this project as well the likes of the University of the West of England but that's where again there there may well be as a result of this live data because this is not a demo run as we said this is live test run some of that data may be fed back through to Swansea so there might be more work to do on the computerized fluid dynamics potentially every piece of research in its own right there leads to new avenues new ways of thinking new new questions that arise that need to be addressed and absolutely I'm sure that'll be the case here as well well thank you Kedar Ponyo for your time thank you for your support as well of the project in that we risked AP SRC all the best in the future as well we've got another video that we just want to show you we want to look back at what happened 20 years ago 15th of october 1997 when thrust SSC went supersonic I'm variable love it full video Wednesday morning 15th of October 9 o'clock good morning it's about three to four degrees outside we're looking for a flat outruns way to make it more like a supersonic two-way average today it's a popular misconception that driving a land speed record in a straight line is about anchoring the steering wheel planting your foot to the floor and just waiting till you run out of fuel if only it were that simple the car moves around an awful lot any Road car moves around a little bit and it moves around more so as you go faster when you go a lot faster like 700 miles an hour faster the car moves around a huge amount the wheels are now skimming across the surface the shock waves are generating uneven forces gusts of crosswind the car is sliding all over the track in terms of doing a run in thrust SSC begin takes very close to the ground I put very little power on to start with to accelerate the car without sucking lumps of desert into the intakes so initially just inching the throttle forward letting the car roll slowly progressively around about 80% rpm on the engine that's quite a low power setting just letting the car accelerate no faster than a normal family saloon car would pulling away from the light rolling up through 10 20 30 all the way up through 50 60 miles an hour the reheat nozzles at the back of the engine start to close down to increase the thrust output now accelerating more quickly through 90 100 miles an hour now got really strong airflow into the engines now I can spin them up very quickly ease the throttle forward to the dry stop the turbines spin up to maximum speed they are now working flat out to get more thrust neat fuel goes into the exhaust and literally reheats the exhaust reheat check that both needles are showing a light up so that both light together one lights and the other doesn't the cars going to want to go in a circle which is not good at supersonic speeds having gotten both lit ease my foot all the way down both nozzles open fully we get absolute full power and the car is now accelerating at something like 25 miles an hour every second 250 275 300 325 and it just keeps going speed up to 500 up to 550 approaching 600 miles an hour the airflow starts to go supersonic underneath the car which affects the handling it goes supersonic over the top of the car it's the loudest highest pitched scream I've ever heard the car tended to pull because of the way it was constructed in the staggered rear wheels tended to pull hard left at around 600 miles an hour and that was requiring up to 90 degrees of steering lock to keep it straight and on our first supersonic record run it was such a hard pull I actually had to throttle back to minimum reheat and close the reheat nozzles right down to reduce the thrust rebalance the car car is now 50 feet off line and I'm steering it effectively on the throttle at six hundred and fifty miles an hour as the car starts to respond as soon as it starts to come back towards the line I've got to put full power on or we won't get supersonic and as it comes back to the line take the opposite lock off straighten the car back up now it's going supersonic at over 700 miles an hour all the airflow settles down starts to go fully supersonic and it runs absolutely straight of the die through the timing lights which took four and a half seconds about 4.7 seconds to cover the mile through the timing lights unbeknown to me we're also throwing a huge sonic boom out across the desert my job isn't only half done I now need to stop the car at the other end of the track so throttling back at the end of the measured mile we've now got warning captions for all of the oil thrown towards the front of the engines because it's slowing down so quickly the low fuel caps and is flickering the car is now slowing down at over 1 G over 20 miles an hour per second but very rapidly as the car gets subsonic we've got a 10 ton car very slippery 10 ton car still hammering along at over 500 miles an hour I'm waiting until the distance at the end to the end of the track equals the speed I'm going which is also changing when the two numbers match punch out the parachute with a button on the left hand to do steering wheel yoke and immediately parachute goes out generates another 4 or 5 tons of drag and bumps the deceleration back up to 20 miles an hour per second [Applause] the car is now going to slow down and I'm still checking the numbers slowing down through 400 350 300 miles an hour it's about 2 miles left to run 250 miles an hour 200 miles an hour we've got a mile left to run I'm now going to shut the engines down they've had a few seconds to cool we don't want to ingest anything else so shut the engines down start to ease on the wheel brakes and I'm now looking about half a mile ahead looking at the recovery crew so that as we roll to a stop by ease the brakes on and we stop exactly 14 miles from where we set off right next to the guys we've got a turn a 10 ton jet car around look the best part of a ton of fuel in reload the parachutes do a full systems and data check and confirm it's safe to go back through the measured mile within one hour so stopping in the right place is the key bit to starting the pitstop on the fastest car in the world the drive then involves repeating all of that and subsequently stopping the car at the other end and waiting for the time keeper to have recorded it 15 through October 1997 he came back with those famous words pit station this is you sack timing I have some times for you and they were supersonic and that record still stands today [Music] the rest of the bolts have just arrived obviously great insight by Andy green into what happened at Blackrock Nevada 20 years ago on the 15th of October 1997 breaking the land speed record that had been set by his predecessor Richard Noble project director of Bloodhound SSC and we've got another member of the Bloodhound SSC team that's now come to join us in the studio we've got Stuart Edmondson who is a very important man head of engineering operation for the project and the man in charge really of the test program here at new key airport so welcome along Stuart I'm sure it's been a an enormous ly busy day for you all albeit I suspect a hugely satisfying one because the car look great is that job done it's not job done but what a big day this is being such a wonderful experience the whole team are buzzing we've spent years designing years building and then the last few weeks testing and today has been such a success but no it's it's not all over this is the beginning this is a big milestone in the trials and testing that we have to do and we've got a lot more to do so all of that hard work done looking forward even more hard work to do the difficult bit come now is that is that wait now starts this next phase I would argue this is a big milestone in the testing of carts the first time it's run we've learned a lot about integrating the systems on the car and obviously we've integrated the ej200 engine so that whole process of learning of integration and the integration the engine is put us now in a good position for the integration of the rocket and all the further tests we need to do at higher speeds which unfortunately we can't do here and Yuki just to sort of bring it to live for people as well that perhaps you know not on site here but but looking on the web stream just tell us about the background that you've come from and how you became involved in the project right and my background engineering University and I joined the Air Force I was inspired about fast jets and I during 19 years in the Air Force on fast jets initially on tornado but then on typhoons and the link obviously with bloodhound is the typhoon engine I got involved with bloodhound when I was still in the Air Force and and then last year I got the invite to join the team and what a privilege and you know all the hard work the team's done over the years has now paid off today and it's a wonderful feeling it gives you very warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it ha yes it does I chat to the team I mean the focus out there is the car and Andy but the guys that every single you know all the guys and girls are involved on the team the engineering team are absolutely buzzing you should just hear the discussions they've gone through some pain and today it's all just bubbled to the surface and we're just so pleased so pleased that today has been such a success I think the one thing that I've certainly not mentioned it today and therefore there'll be a lot of people that aren't aware that to even get to today from where you were three or four months ago this date was set and the team then had to make sure that everything was done you know for the first time you you'd have the car put together but you then have to take it apart again to check certain components which means you then have to rebuild the thing back up again so the pressure was on to even achieve what we've achieved today indeed I mean the date was set the date was set and we had to work to that day and we came across technical problems but we solved them and the teamwork has been key the teamwork has just come together which is part of the learning curve we need to go down in terms of being ready for South Africa because ultimately you've seen a run today you've seen all the effort in getting the car running today but for the record we've got to do that run twice and turn the car refuel rocket fuel the works and that's all going to be based upon the teamwork and so the last few weeks is the start the journey is operating as a team to support this car and get the two runs required to break the land speed record within one hour you mentioned the running of the car in South Africa so I think now is the perfect points that we can have a quick look at the video where you tested the wheels on the very surface on which blood town will run so with with a land speed record car it's very key to get the wheel just right so the cars you see running here on kalahari Speed Week and the Bonneville Speed Trials they run rubber tires the reason they do that is they've got driven wheels so their engines are driving the wheels they need traction rubbers excellent for that around about 400 miles an hour because the wheels go round faster and faster the tire peels off the rims and it comes off so you then have to go to a solid wheel so we've chosen aluminium and basically these trials that's a verify not only the material we've got but it's that final bit of the profile so whether it's whether it digs into the desert or whether it's very smooth and it's very key the surface is unique and it is Andy Greene's looks an awful lot of places and this is the one place on the world that will become the world's best place for braking land speed records main objective is we're trying to new wheel profile shapes on the on the on the pan here we came out in November last last year to do our first testing out here and it became very clear that the the wheels we were using were cutting through the thin mud layer on the top of the surface and running on the hard kind of bedrock that below their kind of mud you get on the top and they were seeing quite a lot of damage to the wheel as it was running on the surface so we've got two new wheel profiles here today that are flatter so the idea is to try and get them to run on the mud surface and not run so deeply really embedded in the ground if they run too shallow though then we'll lose any kind of lateral grit because I have to dig in a little bit to get some kind of grit start with we're going to just run the trailer down down the desert for a couple of kilometers and then add some more water ballast to the tanks and then of it we'll work our way up to the full car weight and then we can monitor how far the wheels go into the dirt as we increase the weight and then what we'll also do is we'll drive the lorry in some circles and if we know the speed of the lorry and the radius that we game around we can work out how much lateral grip we've got and by looking at the beam dents into into the mode you can see how much the trailer wheels are actually sliding and from that we've got a pretty good under understanding of the lateral grip as well so that's that's the plan anyway [Applause] it's been really good I mean today was we round the trailer with the heaviest weight so it's now pretty much what the car will weigh on one one axle the straight line tests basically the flatter wheel is running to its full width so it's getting some lateral grip those are concerned it's kind of picking the edges the v-shaped wheel hasn't broken through the surface at all has been showing pretty good stuff it's not being damaged at all by any rocks that are in there in the surface we've just done leave the certain tests either way and Fair Play has been pretty impressive the trailer has just started to move in both directions and yeah it's showing that we're getting fantastic reps I think it's been really successful yeah I mean it's excellent I mean it's really interesting looking at how the two wheels behave differently we obviously made them very different so we could definitely see it a difference and now we've got the previous data we had that we collected in November and the data from these two will so from this we'll be able to design the the optimum profile should I say for the wheels for the for the first year and then when we start running the car obviously we will learn an awful lot more about how the wheels are behaving with the real car but this is the first sort of first major sort of hurdle you've got to get over into designing an actual profile we've had a quick look then at the testing of those wheels out on the hack skiing pan and vital that those wheels were testing when you look at what happened there in the VT that we've just seen Stewart Edmondson still continues with us in the studio who is the head of engineering operations for Bloodhound SSC the wheels are an important thing stopping is an important thing we know that for sure from a thousand miles per hour back down to zero but where Andy stops is pretty vital and that's where the record could be won or lost can indeed so we've got to do two runs through the flying mile measured the average of those two but the key point is we get back through that second mile within the hour so you've got a 13 mile track five and a half miles to accelerate the important part is the middle bit that measured miles that's where you break or don't break the record five and a half miles to decelerate and when when does the clock start ticking when you start that run or when you first enter the measured mile or when you stop the car entering the measured mile entering the measured that's when the closed so you don't get an hour then in reality by the time a car has stopped you don't get in an hour to to do what you need to get down and she believed it to it it's stopping the car in the right place and and thrust did nail this in the in getting the car to stop where the turnaround team are and so critical for us is every second counts so if we can stop the car safely at the right location we minimize the time it takes for the turnaround team to get to the car once we get to the car it's got a whole load of heat energy within it we've got to dump that heat energy in the form of water replace that with cooler water in our two cooling systems we've also got to replenish the jet engine so jet fuel we've also got to replenish the rocket this is rocket fuel all of that has to be done in a timely fashion to as you point out start the car up get Andy but we'll get back at Andy back in it start it up do all of the system checks then release him then he's got to accelerate back up to the flying mile and get back into it within the hour and that is absolutely and so the one thing you don't want then is is and the it's not massive there it's so critical the acceleration part of is critical so it hits peak speed at the right point of the circuit but equally as critical if not more critical is the deceleration back from that terminal speed which is going to be in the region of 1050 as a peak speed that you're aiming for because if he ends up 100 meters away from the catch crew how much longer is that adding to that turnaround for you by the time you've moved how many vehicles to get to him yeah well the exact number of vehicles we haven't fully assess so part of what we've been doing in Newquay is starting to assess all of the procedures and the various roles and functions and how long they take that's all been done through the trials here at nuki so this is not about firing the car down Yuki rung and testing it's not just that it's understanding how long it will take us to do the various functions I'm then going to use that data to formulate the most efficient plan to conduct all those things that I mentioned previously so moving the vehicles how many are there the speeds of those vehicles can travel out we'll all have to be taken to account and ultimately we can't afford to miss a record for the fact that the turnaround didn't turn the car in time that happened did it not with with thrust SSC there was one run I gather that where the car came to a halt in the right place but by the time the car had been serviced and turned around and got back into the measured mile you were a matter of seconds outside about 60 minute barrier and that would have broken the record but it didn't count and will never be registered because you were too late that's why I'm signing now I didn't have the privilege of being there but that's what I've heard and and that is it I mean this is this is all about the car but it's all about the people and it's all about the processes to get a record and we're beginning to learn on that journey with this team with bloodhound and I suppose that's that's no different to something that we would see in Formula one in a pit stops where you you you practice the efficiency you make that process of servicing the car doing what you need to do to it which is entirely different to a Formula One team but whereas they do it in three seconds you've got a bit more work to do but there's a key difference that they do do this regularly and that's why new keys so important to us with the opportunities for getting this right are limited so we have to make the most of that we are not doing this day in day out I wish I could run bloodhound every single day I can't but when we do run it we're exactly focusing on those processes and when we go to the desert as we increment the speed again that's an opportunity to finesse those processes and do you throughout those processes and as you as you finesse that process and increase those speeds does that mean that in that turnaround period as the speeds get faster there must be more work for you to do because you'll be checking all the bits that may possibly have a bit more fatigue because you because you start to go into quicker speed yeah the key thing is when we're increasing the speed a lot of the trial runs aren't for the record so we can stop pause learn and discuss things so as we increment the speed we're testing the car and we're also testing those turnaround procedures but not under the pressure of doing a turn as we get closer to going for a record we will then do some live dress rehearsals yeah of that so the good thing it again just as we've done in Newquay it's a slow pace and we learn a lot from that and we're going to build that as the car the speed of the car builds you mentioned earlier on sort of the the the excitement the enthusiasm of what we've achieved today now your guys must be without question running on adrenaline the Romans you know they've got to repeat this again you've got you've got I say a down datum or you happen you'll be busy I know that this is the Bloodhound project after all but they must be running on enthusiasm and that's not a bad thing the fact that they've got to have a long day today they've got to service the car tomorrow we'll do it all again on Saturday because that again is in itself testing and training for what are going to be very difficult conditions in South Africa absolutely and this car we could run this car again today because the design and build of it is such that it could do that and that's phenomenal we've got a car now there is got service abilities right up there now you're right Saturday is again all about resetting and going again again a great opportunity to and just finesse I've used that word before how we operate and run the car and uh for me what I'd like to point out for me the big day is Monday Monday is when I was a kid and I saw fourth fast jets for 3,000 children on Monday this is going to be such a day for them and I can't wait to see their faces I present at schools and see their faces but when they see this car run it's gonna be phenomenal and ultimately one of our V aim of our car is the inspiration next generation and I just hope they come away from that going wow that is amazing well I think they will that the running of the car we'll have our Bloodhound education team doing science shows up on stage and I gather they're going to sort of do something that also gives us some some some sonic booms as well and I think somebody that's already in the education area and therefore enjoying all of that is Jenny Gao she's gone for a wonder off again back into the education area yes I'm sure apart from Andy green I have one of the best jobs today because look at this we're in the education zone and there is so much going on there are so many people here as well at the moment there's even people drinking beer which is excellent work I feel so yes lots of merry and there's lots of enjoying themselves and actually one let's come here and try and talk to these guys because they are clearly in the middle of something okay watching themselves hello what's your name I'm Jason Baker Baker cadet Baker what are you up to at the minute we are just using these two insane people by filling up those buckets or cups like and then once they filled up you'd flick it or in that case you use great smoke bubbles and it changed people really amazing and that's to show us an aerodynamics and the effect of it I love it thank you very much for demonstrating good stuff I'm sorry what was your name sir so you were a you a corporal commander captain cutter cadets not even got his uniform yet what's your name only you're having a nice day you must like cars because of your top you like that yes okay I'm gonna leave you to it right I'm gonna walk around this way and hopefully you can follow me a little bit because if I show you we got circuit boards we've got programming happening we spoke to Mike a bit hang on a minute Mike's him he's the educational team leader these girls these girls having a great time here it's going to say how is it gone so far today Wow absolutely fantastic we've been bowled over with it everybody's now particularly haven't seen that car run they're coming over and in their own car here you know and learning some of the bits about the coding [Music] of these cars is our car has got three computers on it now all those need coding as well it must be nice to have a real term kind of you go out you see the car run you see you hear it and you see the flame coming at the back then you can come here and you can understand what's happening yeah you know a young girl came to me too bitterly and said well we've just seen your car run can only now come and make this car go can I cook oh this is it that easy and wow that's that's what really pays back it's awesome I love it so much and hopefully you're hearing us okay because then we're on the very large screen just stop there and the audio is quite loud so hopefully it's okay so you've got people over here and they are designing their own engine and car to try and make a faster vehicle as they can and they've designed a whole computer program around that to hopefully enable them to put it all together and then as I said design if I smoke a hot guys I'm just gonna hello I'm just going to interrupt you very quickly how's it going are you against the time at the moment we are we are we're not doing very well at the moment I'll be honest yeah we're really bad at this we're trying our hardest we're trying to do team work but it's not going well so this is one of the main concepts of this you meant to be doing team work you can go and get different you've just knocked over the timing sorry so tell me what you're meant to be doing because at the moment it looks like you're creating carnage in a room I think you're meant to just put all the parts we had together to try and build our own rocket and then I think it test runs after that see how fast it reaches and how it performs against other people or something through the sign I think yeah it's gonna be a war that's gonna go quick oh whoa Abby Abby time stands the only thing stuck for the engine so it's gonna say I fear aerodynamically that might be a challenge Treecko but who knows they're having a lot of fun anyway and I just want to come over here because there's a lots more people here hi what you guys up to okay so these guys they're making cuts don't know if you can see there's a massive box of different parts they make the vehicle is yours ready to go yeah we tested it can we go and test it again okay what's your name Oscar Oscar come on in Oscar let's see if they can go and test again so this is one of the big things over here which is that they can bill hello they can build their vehicles just like this and then over here Oh how are you with are you with yeah this is Ben okay can you explain what he's doing at the minute for us so Ben has engineered a car out of Meccano and sellotape and is putting it on the racetrack under pressure to see how it performs okay so hopefully been on didn't this hear that so he's gonna press the green button that was amazing he left you hanging there Anthony he left you hanging em if you don't mind we're going to go through the process and just if you can talk us through what you're doing would that be okay yes that's fine what we're doing just loading the car on now we got this beautiful car almost looks like a bloodhound designed as this one he's been running number of tests the go away build the cars come here test it run it backwards and forwards you struggling there are we there we go we've got that launched what we will do now is pump up I'll get some pressure build up some air pressure with it you got a minute hang on in it let me just have a feel how are your muscles doing fine are they okay of it is there enough muscle in there okay go go go go right that's 10 15 17 20 that's what we won't stop at that brilliant check the crack and we just stand back from the track so press the green button 3 2 1 launch right to the end of the track look at that brilliant car amazing so you can see there's a queue of kids thank you very much for teaching us through that Kirra kids just waiting to start pumping show their arm muscles and also show their engineering prowess which is amazing and I tell you I'm going to take you for one little bit more of a journey if we walk here I gotta go around here hello sir hello we're gonna walk around here now we try to do this one before which is them aerodynamics airstreams hello how are you doing yeah I'm good what's your name salmon salmon and what's your name Chapman salmon and Chapman I'm assuming those are your last names otherwise I was going to say salmon that's an unusual name where did that come from but we won't go there and so we have pom-poms scissors straws and some sellotape and some little cups and what are you trying to achieve with this salmon we're trying to achieve the bull now the top of the car so it shows people the gravity that happens okay and how successful is it it's really hard I have actually seen quite a few people down here do this can we put some can we put some bull are you ready for balls so you've got balls in there okay are you ready to have it a little go they are staying it okay one fell out but they managed to say that this one's very good Oh to be quite honest like this sort of person that would actually probably put all of the pom-poms in there and just blow really hard on see them all yeah you can do this go I love that thank you so much and let's go Matt yeah and have a little look what these guys are up to hello what's your name you have to think about that Toby if you change your name recently no okay that's good Toby and what's your name my name is NAT NAT and what are you guys up to here do you know what the scientific process is behind the toys to have fun yeah that's what it is about here having fun and you are designing which is you know one of the key concepts random random stuff it's one of your designs yes it's very random I mean it looks like one of the wheels on the bloodhounds that could work okay I think that they have to what this is just a mega structure I just like building it that's fine are you going to go into something to do with engineering mechanics building probably not what do you want to do what I want to do something that pays well something you're a smart cookie right I'm just come out here because hopefully it who's whose is this is this yours what's your name Zak now can you tell me if I move this slightly out the way just so our camera can have a little look Zak this looks broken it i I failed the Blue Peter audition unfortunately but I'm not going to touch it now I've really broken a half my Zak just tell me what it is about this that you I mean why did you come up with this concept I like building and do you like building things with wheels on yeah and this one you've got four six wheels on this that's going to make it really flow isn't it and any reason in particular for this nose because it looks like a very aggressive aerodynamic nose I cut through the air isn't it and send it all at the back right thank you so much guys thank you very much there's loads of stuff down here to keep everybody busy so if you're coming over the next few days you'll know that you can come and have a whale ever time guys thank you very much say bye I'm not sure who's enjoying it more now whether it's Jenny Gow or the youngsters that we're looking to try and inspire with this fantastic historic project just with us for one final question Stewart Edmondson who is the head of engineering operations for Bloodhound SSC remains with us we've spoken through lots of different things of what you and your team have been doing and the process that you'll go through at the end of the runs when we get out to the Kalahari Desert but once we've finished here in Newquay you are going to have several obstacles to overcome before we next run that car at very fast speeds somewhere in the world just what do you think is going to be the largest obstacle that as an engineering team you will need to overcome between the end of this weekend and when we next run most cars at high speed Wow we've got a long list of challenges we've had a long list of challenges all through the program and there will be they'll be continued to be thrown at us so but the one thing I would say is we've now got data or from a moving car and we've also got the confidence that that car is moving so I think the next challenge will be looking at the integration of the rocket obviously and how we do that and also looking at taking the speed up and then gaining confirmation of the aerodynamic data from the car but there's a whole host of them I mean this this this project project is pushing the boundaries of everything it's just every day's a challenge you know today was a challenge we were ready for it but it was a challenge and we achieved it so I I'm not worried about the future all I know one thing is it will be challenging your face Thank You Stuart Edmondson for joining us in the studio well you'd be based in the hardened aircraft shelter down at the bottom of the runway so it's about time you gave us a guided tour of your facility certainly I'm Stuart Edmondson head of engineering operations on the Bloodhound program I'm going to spend a couple of minutes just talking about where we are at the moment and what we're up to as you can see over in front of our hardened aircraft shelter these were built during the Cold War to protect Royal Air Force's aircraft but now it's ideally suited for what we're doing at a new key airports this is where we do all our engineering all of our pre use checks post run checks and I'm just going to give you a brief outline inside okay so you see a central feature is bloodhound the car itself with suitable lighting all around and you'll notice around the car we've got various Bay's that provide the necessary support from in the far corner the mechanical side and then on the right-hand side the systems team are based if we come on in closer we then also position some of their critical equipment out to the side so you can see on the left-hand side here the canopy and that's all ready to go so when we've done our pre run checks obviously these items are the last things that get fitted to the car before we roll the car out of the has so here that final preparations of the cockpit some slight adjustments we're installing cameras so we can capture the action and that's being done now late ready for our runs later today as you can see here one of our Bay's is a fabrication shop we've tried to replicate all of the facilities we had back in Avonmouth near Bristol so we've got the ability to make adjustments minor repairs and so on so on this side of the hardened aircraft shelter we've got all our systems team they're based here with ability to plug into the car update data make software changes and also all of the cable looms can be made and manufactured here on the spot if we need to make any adjustments and finally we've got our ground support equipment which is crucial obviously for preparation in the car including the ability to refuel it and also our air start units which is vital for starting the ej200 that we also have our cooling rig that is here to support us in cooling down the car post runs okay that gives you a brief summary of what the activities go on inside the hardened aircrafts shelter which is vital engineering checks prior and post all of our runs but the second important aspect of our location is the fact we're only a few hundred meters away from the airfield where we conduct our dynamic testing and in fact we're due to do some of that this afternoon [Music] so we saw and we heard the car run earlier on over the course of the day and one of the questions I'm sure many people have is what does it feel like to go 1,000 miles an hour well the answer is nobody really knows but every innovation within Bloodhound SSC driver Andy green Wing Commander in the RAF has clocked up many hours flying phantoms and tornado Jets so there's no surprise that he's come up with a very novel way to simulate 1,000 miles an hour runs using his acrobatic plane sounds fairly alarming but here is one person that has experienced that it's Charlie d'Agata who is one of the correspondents from CBS who has had I'm not sure whether it would be a pleasure of going up with and agreed in a plane to simulate that thousand miles an hour run just just how was it because it seems a very unusual novel way of trying to replicate what it would be like it was incredibly exciting and it was a pleasure I mean I was really nervous before he took off and and Andy of course told me what to expect but you don't really know what to expect until you're in it and when we first took off and we started pulling a bit of G said okay this is where you turn right so when you turn left and you could start to feel the pressure on you but then it was very specific what he was showing me is what he does in order to prepare Ford for this so it is a very specific sort of two minute routine where at one point the very worst of it was when we went inverted so we're upside down so it sort of gets the negative G and then Bank and then start turning right so it's positive two or three so a net for G something like that and that is to replicate what's happening in the car now all I was thinking is don't throw up and don't pass out I didn't do either one of those things but it put the strain on your body and then when I got out of the air craft I felt it all afternoon and the next day the tightness in your legs I mean the physical toll the physiological effects on the body extreme not for him I mean he's a specimen for me yeah I was feeling it but I suppose those physical effects that you're talking about that they're maintained in your body that's because of course the blood flow is going away from the muscle groups for a period of time and therefore there's a small amount of trauma to the muscle for a period of time not a small amount [Laughter] exactly didn't work out because he told me and this is very important I was glad I asked this question I said keziah I mean I've been in light aircraft before but not thrown around in the sky like that and when he said I said you know do I do I hold my breath do I tighten up and he said no it's about the worst thing you can do because your brain is already started of oxygen so you don't want to hold your breath you do take a deep breath and then you try to put some stress and clench your leg muscles as hard as you can and even with all of that I started feeling a little bit loopy right at the top as I was coming back in and the extraordinary thing was and he's behind me and he's not only maneuvering the aircraft but he's giving me a play-by-play through all of it no I'm thinking is I hope my eyes stay open long enough for the camera shot it sounds absolutely it sounds absolutely fantastic I think it's worth worth probably pointing out whilst all of this was going on in you er your your body was having to cope with those forces there was no g-suit was there no no no no he made that clear he said you know it's gonna be a bumpy start it was a very bumpy runway you're getting thrown around and then we get up in this wonderfully responsive aircraft it was just incredible and then I I felt relaxed and then once we started doing even just the simple maneuvers you feel it and we it's hard to explain what G is I mean when your guess we aren't of the biggest roller coaster you've ever been on and you can't even lift your arm I mean you can't do anything and even told me to as we said we go upside down he said if you see anything on the canopy grab it because we don't know what it belongs to so it's real you know we're getting thrown around and just the the idea that he's not even breaking a sweat back there I can hear him giving me the play-by-play the cool that's what he's like it's unshakable you mentioned roller coaster there and that's that's the perfect sort of way to relate that back to you know that the children that we're trying to inspire with this project do that you know you go on a roller coaster in the bit where you can't lift your body out of the seat on the roller coaster or the pit way your tummy goes down that's one and a half to G it's an absolute peak exactly and and what thing one thing he made clear to me and this is before because I had interviewed him before and I said you know what's the worst part of it on the terms of the physical toll he said the deceleration is far worse than the acceleration I think it's the way the body's designed anyway you can put push forward and you can withstand that but he said it's equivalent from going 60 miles an hour to zero in one second so now you're pushed in that direction so it's the deceleration when he's in that vehicle which he tried to point out and I have to say that is where the toll was taken on my body because as we were going upside down it wasn't the shoulder straps that were keeping you in it was the ones that were across your thighs that were just holding you and yes that roller coaster sensation you feel that but well for me anyway it felt like times 10 he's gonna have to sort of cope without for what 55 seconds of acceleration under that positive G pushing it back into the seat and then as you say those soon as we use off the throttles with decelerating so quickly we end up with three negative g pulling him forward for another 55 seconds and he's driving a car when at a time when you know all the oxygen is out of your brain your equilibrium is thrown off your inner ear this is what it was explained to me I can't imagine it as a correspondent for CBS you'll have experienced many many things more than I could ever care to imagine over the years some beautiful things and also props some probably quite awful things every years being a correspondent in terms of your your memories of this this is going to be one that we surely must be rather way up there with with the positive the great things that you have to be yeah you know I've been to Mosel I've been to Afghanistan I've been to parts of Syria that's some tough reporting and it's not the kind of you know stories you want to share over a dinner party but what is more exciting than this and it's something everybody can get excited about because you know as it was explained to me by one of the engineers like everybody has been in or has has a car I mean this is a car on steroids but is relatable and when you have something that's exciting and it's there isn't anything negative about this it's all positive it's great to be able to share that you'd be based in the UK for the best part of almost quarter of a century now if not a little bit a little bit more but you grew up and lived in Boston for a good period of time you still must have family and friends and connections over there so you're the Bloodhound effect it's cross the Atlantic surely it has in you know we've tried to have some fun with the rivalry because as you know there's an American team as an Australian team but you know as it was explained to me today it's like they're kind of if there were rearview mirrors it's in the rearview mirror that mean the Americans have got a lot of catching up to do but of course we share that because it's it's a sort of global thing bloodhound everybody you know it's a phenomenon everybody loves speed right everybody loves trying to push the limits of Technology of human limitations of mainframes you know the idea of putting a jet engine on top of a rocket it's cool so of course this is dummy this is a reason we're covering it today because it's something that people are fascinated about and I think you made a very valid point we've alluded to this a few times throughout the course of the day you know there are competitors out there we've got Rosco McGlashan who's looking to try and build Ozzy Invader he's had his difficulties and hopefully he's overcome that last difficulty and his project will now move forward we've got North American Eagle with their that were their attempt at it which which I agree with you that they're behind where we are I think they are a fair way behind but it's a very small community world land speed record breaking so there is rivalry but it's it's it's quite a friendly rivalry as well and do you sort of get the feel of that as well when you talk to your friends over in the states and who might be maybe engaged with the American projects and rather than the Bloodhound one well one of the things that the Bloodhound team have been trying to amplifies the fact of this transparency this this data sharing and this is data that is really available to schools in the United States with the help of the Oracle and others so they're looking the folks who are trying to beat the Lance record in the United States mean they only have to check to see the progress of this vehicle and they share in the excitement I would say that they're a bit envious because it's so tremendously well supported I mean takes more than a village to put something like that together and I think we have quite the resources that you got here in the UK put something like this together so it's a mixture of envy and excitement because he said it's a it's a small community it's a friendly rivalry in there they're looking at the the technology being used and you know pinching it here and there as I'm sure this team has looked over some of the stuff that's happening in the United States and maybe stealing off that too and the final question then I'm not sure I'm envious about the fact that you got to go up in the aircraft I'm not sure my stomach would be quite strong enough but will you please to get back down on the ground I was I was and you know as as a journalist you can appreciate this you know there are ways of getting into an experience you could say well I'm gonna shelter myself you know this is gonna be extreme the physical the human condition is that we want to batten down but you you want to do the opposite when you're experiencing something like that you want to open yourself to those experiences and I didn't want to come taxiing down back onto that runway thinking I really wished I paid more attention and it was as soon as we stopped I wanted to go back up again you do it again it was great fun you must be absolutely mad it scares a life out of me and I think what we need to do then is probably scare the life out of other people of Volkers we've got a video that does show exactly what it's like to go in this 1,000 mile simulation with Andy green of Bloodhound SSC so let's take a look [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] well we've been talking throughout the course of the day about the goal of Bloodhound SSC and its main goal to inspire that next generation of scientists technologists people are involved in engineering and mathematics so one thing we need to do is take a quick look at just one of the ways in which the project is looking to inspire that next generation [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's just one of the ways in which Bloodhound SSC delivers projects on the ground floor to engage that next generation of students and children about science technology engineering and mathematics but it also has a small army of volunteer ambassadors that help deliver that and an education team as well that all the country riding hands on workshops to children and individuals now I've got two people from the education team alongside me I've got Kirsty old press and Rob Bennett members of the education team hello it looks as though in your little area where Jenny Gow seems to have spent an inordinate amount of time enjoying herself today you've also had plenty and plenty of our target audience those small young children and people that are heading through schooling and looking at future careers they've all been busy enjoying themselves go see their absolutely I mean I think you can see the excitement and and the good thing about these activities is they are as you say for all age ranges and all abilities and everyone can get involved and they're really hands-on and I think you'll agree it's been really exciting over there today we've seen you know statistics and and figures about that the quantity of children that we've reached in the UK over the course of the last few years and we're talking not hundreds or thousands we're talking millions yes I mean to give an example last year we reached over 130,000 children with all of the workshops and activities we've been doing so over the course of the number of years been running yes we're running into millions now which is fantastic it's a phenomenal effect the way that they engage with the project you know it's in schools it's with social media as well when you go into schools and deliver there's just one of the workshops that we saw there the rocket car workshop what's the effect in the school when you do that well I think the video showed it quite nicely I mean it really gets everyone engaged there's excitement there's energy and and the great thing is it's not just about the one day that we go in to visit the school we actually work with the teachers as well to get them involved and we gather data from all of the activities that they do and give those the teachers so that they can carry on and analyze that data and going forward so we're trying to you know inspire teachers as well as well as the students that we're working with if you're gathering data you know we saw the rocket cars there do they have something inside them that allows the data to be gathered then similar to the real car yeah absolutely so they have data gatherers in their accelerometers and we gather that data and give it to the teachers and it varies according to how long we have with the group sometimes it's just a quick taste other times we get to spend a whole day with a group of students and you can see inside today we've been working with coding as well so it's not just utilizing the coding technology it's actually getting them programming as well which is something that schools are really some of the teachers need out with and the students love and really get on board with and really engage with and these workshops you know if we're talking about accelerate accelerometers inside cars and things you know that's for children are there it's sort of in a CAD amazing in secondary school that was it what about those that are sort of in primary well actually we have a lot of interest in primary schools and some of the primary school children I really get it really well and they have some it helps if they have a really enthusiastic teacher but we go in and work with them and get them involved we're doing a lot with mikrobitti at the moment and with vex robotics and we're going and doing all sorts of activities you're also heavily involved with the project and that have been on the education side amongst other things for it for a very good number of years tell us about your experiences and and and maybe just the one thing that before you came into this project and started delivering what you deliver into schools it you just never would perceived would have happened with young children with the technology that's available now even in the length of time we've been having this conversation technology has moved on so how do we keep pace for that how do we encourage and inspire young people that's what we've seen in schools is young people taking those technologies and asking questions so why why is a massive question and we do it when we're 10 and then when we get older we stop asking why but it's so so important to interrogate and investigate and be curious about things and we embed that into our workshops and young people start to see the world in a slightly different way I think that the the difficulty with with some aspects of Education at the moment is that the National Curriculum is clearly a very structured thing and therefore all teachers are quite confined as to how they can deliver certain subjects and you find that we what you do it allows you to maybe circumnavigate some of our I don't even know whether its circumnavigate to be quite honest with you we just see things in a different way we're project-based so there are schools that actually take what we do and see that we deliver on the curriculum in spades across the curricula because of course real life isn't subjects we have to engage in all of those things all of the time we're all doing it in all our jobs and when we're growing up and when we're working on whatever it is that we're doing so we bring that to the schools and it helps deliver real understanding and embedded learning of that curriculum in a very practical way kirsty maybe could you just give a give an overview of some of the types of workshops that are available to schools just briefly and what what they're geared around when it comes back to the car in terms of its relation the one thing as well said is they're all really hands-on activities so the idea is we bring the curriculum to life so something they've been learning at school and we can tie it in with the curriculum across the year so they then can do some practical activity around it rocket cars we've seen is a very popular one also the coding with the robots we have if you've been at the education area you can see there are two scale models of the car which we can actually take into a school so we can bring the sheer size and scale of bloodhound into a school and they can actually see it and they can do activities all around it and we have a what we call tour and explore and as you know our sponsors are really important with that because all the key components that are in the car we talk about all of those and the other thing we do is is hands-on work with the teachers as well to give them follow-on activities they can do with students when we've left I think we've got another nice little video that we can play because it's not just model rocket cars that blur towns of gods and the Bloodhound Education team and bloodhound as a project have the world's largest Airfix kit which is have a quick look at that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it is relevant because you know many of the things that we saw there in terms of the components of the real car you know that was the real car there with a real Andy green sitting at the front are our fundamental in terms of some of the other workshops that you delivered I've seen not just rocket cars Rob I've seen you using connects which most children nowadays will have grown up with but you again deliver a workshop in a very different way that you utilize is that one of the things that is critical in terms of lifelong learning and engagement with the world of work it's not just about those core skills like physics or math or English even but about embedding competence employability skills working in teams time management limited resources and then we can actually get them to in effect replicate what blood town is trying to do in a very real way it's very dynamic very real and sometimes you get disasters and failure but of course failure is part of learning and it's a critical part of the engineering process and as well of course if we're if you're involved in scientific exploration you have to learn to fail and then learn from those experiences and encouraging young people to fail is I think a critical part of learning and we embed that into all that we do so those when you build connects that sort of air powered cars isn't it that the children have to work out how to build it work as a team and try and build it's that it's strong as well I suppose absolutely so they're actually they're embedding Newton's laws of physics laws of motion and also engineering structure and there will learn and they know instinctively that the car veered off to the left when they launched it what they do they need to do to fix it they know they absolutely know that I don't need to tell them I just need to get them to investigate have a go change it make it better and improve it and then you see demonstrated fantastic embedded learning we keep saying that you know we see this skills gap looming but also you know you're one of the female met one of many female members in the project kirsty you know we know that women generally are underrepresented in some areas of Industry you know do you see a positive response from young female children when you go into schools do they engage in the same way as perhaps males doing absolutely I mean they do engage really well and often the girls have to do pretty well in some of the activities that connects that rod mention and rocket cars quite often they out outdo the boys and some some of these activities yeah but I think what's really lovely to see is at the beginning of the day some of the girls sort of hang back a bit and aren't really sure about it and it's not something they're necessarily considered but by the end of the day like wow I hadn't really thought about this as a career all the kind of things I could do and to try and reinforce that we getting parents involved as well so we might do a day of workshops but then we'll say to parents well why don't you come along afterwards and see what we did and give them a taster because it's important to get their buy-in as well I think which does encourage more girls because sometimes parents think wow is that really good career form to go into should they be doing that so so we reinforce that message as well and we do it lots of inquiries from schools and particularly girls schools and and actually what's interesting is seeing the girls working with the boys as well in mixed groups particularly with rocket cars where they are team working and you see really good results when you mix them together as well so and all of these these workshops that you're talking about are they're delivered in it might be the same workshop but it's delivered in a subtly different ways to get to the age group that you're doing it for Rob yeah very much so we do take note of what the curriculum is trying to deliver and we can embed embed layers of learning so for example connects workshop you could do that in nursery you could do it undergraduate level at university and our education partners University of West of England actually use connects to build rocket cars pump by air pumps with their University undergraduate studying engineering and physics because it works well I gathered again I've heard so many fantastic stories I'm trying to weed out how many of them are so wives tales and how many of the true when it comes to this project because it's been going on for such a an enormous amount of time and it's developed so much but one of the stories I heard earlier on today for the first time as that you know we've heard about the the titanium steering wheel being molded 3d printed out of titanium - and these hands but that started if we go back from all of the different iterations and developments of that that started with a piece of cardboard is that true absolutely true and in actual fact we when we have done 3d printing workshops in schools we had that prototype the cardboard prototype if it would work exactly and I've had the privilege of working at based at the blood town Technical Center and I've seen cardboard boxes with masking tape making the fuel tanks before they eventually made them out of carbon fiber it's part of the engineering process and sharing that totally open-source is really helping people to understand that learning process final question for you Kirsty before we then just know grabber at one final response from Rob engineering it's still that global term that we need to try and get people to understand that it's not just one thing engineering it's an enormous sector with so many opportunities it is and that's where our ambassadors and partners come in and the sponsors because they can highlight all these different types of jobs within it so when we're going out talking to schools and talking to children with opportunities we can give them examples of all the kinds of things that they can do and the ambassador team come out support us at events and it's great because they can bring their anecdotal stories about what they're doing in industry as well and how it fits in and so it really does open things up for children gives them an idea of the kind of opportunities that are out there and what they could be doing and Rob just final one I know it's slightly tongue-in-cheek but you must remind me of your job title when it comes to Bloodhound SSC cheap inspire shieff inspire okay so Rob Bennett and curse the old press thanks for joining us Rob Bennett our chief inspirer at bloodhound in the education department so that's a look at a day in the life of the chief inspirer [Music] my name's Rob Bennett and I'm chief inspiring bloodhound but I can't do that on my own there is a network and group of people around as there are teachers like Claire nodes at the castle school where we're going today they put in an awful lot of effort the teachers and organise after-school clubs and lunchtime clubs they take those resources out to their primary feeder schools and engaging to that wider community Dean's here we find is the practical application of math and science and that's it's where children make back connection between what they're doing in those lessons so just by measuring and actually looking at stresses and strains on materials they don't sometimes realize it but they're actually using skills that they deserve it to master finds a good uptake at GCSE level but they're not still more boys than girls one of our aims by doing a lot of these same activities is that actually trying encourage more girls into engineering and the possible careers that they could take down the route so it's really good to see them being very passionate about the subject in year 7 is trying to gain retention and keep them really inspired you know for them to follow that as a career path [Music] [Applause] best part of my job is seeing young people and of course the grown-ups that have responsibility for them their eyes light up because it's opened their thinking they're engaged they're inspired to do things in a different way to start believe in new things and new ideas and that really encourages me and when I get feedback from teachers or from students or from parents how their young people have taken those things on board those new ideas and got off and and explore things it's really really exciting to think that you actually make a difference to the way people see the world really [Music] well we're coming to the close of our day here at Kabul Airport in Newquay and we've still got a few things to look back at throughout the course of the day but but Jenny you back here in the studio back in the warmth again it has been a memorable day memorable day I'm sure for everybody that's been here and for everybody that's watched online as well yeah I've had such a fantastic time and I hope everybody who's been here and who's watched the stream has had a great time too you might not broken as many things as I have because I've made my way around the education although come on do tell it's just small children's cards I seem to have a habit of just putting a hand out go oh look and then it just a wheel falls off or something so and yes I don't think they're letting me back in the education saying which is why I came back over here because it seems safer and easier place for me to not touch and break stuff but it's so cool over there because trying to get across to children and young people that um engineering is a cool thing sometimes it's really hard tasks and you know I might be on the road with Formula one and and that sort of inspires people a little bit but actually there is nothing better to inspire people then to actually get your hands on on things that you can touch that you can feel that you can have an effect on and if that's an aerodynamic effect or if it's a design effect as you've been saying all day there are so many different parts to engineering absolutely and to go over there and be able to take part you know in as many of those as possible it's just such a cool environment I think to be able to bring them to life you know if you're if you're in a classroom environment you know it the learning has to be there and it has to be structured learning absolutely and and with Bloodhound SSC it is still structured but I think the way that it's is very clever from what I've seen throughout the course of the day because the children are learning and they don't know they're learning yes they're very up for it they don't realize it they it's just a brilliant platform for it and I just wondered for you you've been involved in this project for a long time I think it's fair to say how have you felt seeing it all come to fruition being able to sit here and you know comment A's on bloodhound going down and doing 208 miles an hour it has been an absolute pleasure to be involved with the project for what four years now just over and this day was always going to come and I was so pleased when it was announced and I there was a there was a little lump in the throat you know because it looks fantastic it's a wonderful sight and and yes that still don't get me wrong there's still a long way to go you know there's still a lot that we need to do to move the project forward and with the likes of with Andy green with with project director Richard noble with Ron Ayers and all of the people that we've had in the studio that have given up their precious time to be with us today to to put the message out there I have absolutely every confidence in the world with them and with our ambassadors and with all of our corporate supporters that are supporting the project that we will get there that we will break the land speed record and that we will achieve a thousand miles an hour I mean when you look at the future and the involvement of all the people here today people are online the kids the next generation coming forward it's it's it's really exciting to think that all of these people could be seeing a major movement within you know British achievement it's just I I find that quite or inspiring I think I think I think it's you know a global achievement you know we've as a species we can push those boundaries continually again you look at some of the the early innovators and and you know some of them were their ideas were considered ludicrous at the time or it couldn't be done and as we heard from Ron Ayers earlier on people suggesting that breaking the sound barrier on land was impossible well the best way to prove that it's possible is to do it and the man just over your left shoulder is the man that did that and be green we guarantee green so and had it not a theme for people that wanted to try something different and do something different and going about billions of years you know as a civilization we have evolved and we keep evolving and technology keeps evolving what better showcase that we've got than that blue and orange thing that there's 20 meters away from our studio it's still amazing the amount of people who are here who were coming down to get their picture taken with bloodhounds and to see do you know what is over in the education zone and how that matches up with seeing it in person and and meeting Andy and I think Andy's done the rounds of everybody today and spoken to the world and spoken to almost everybody here as well even now there's a gentleman stood outside the front of our studio waiting to have an autograph from Andy because it's a piece of history and it means a lot to everybody and I think you know if it means goodbye no it's okay you can go now but thank you very much he's just left it and we'll be out there for a while we will be out there for a very long period of time I don't think his day is going to finish for whether we now we just could be up towards the floor clock I don't think his day is going to finish but probably another five maybe even six hours yet from what I gather so a long long day for him and it's got to do it all again because today was the first public test we will let the car rest tomorrow the engineers will do what they need to do and we will repeat this process with this more is vital as we've heard earlier on from Stuart Edmondson you know it's vital for the car but it's vital for his team as well to to practice what they need to do not just on terms of the engineering side but also what's going to go on in the desert when the car gets to one end of the run and they have to think about all of those process and all of those roles that will take place so this testing time is critical for everybody yes so Saturday more people coming we're expecting lots of people down here maybe over 3,000 which I expect he's going to cause a few traffic jams yes and then when we get to Monday that's when we open the gates up to all the local children 4000 plus children from all of all ages coming from around Cornwall and the surrounding area to be here as well so you know that will be know a day which will certainly keep the education team busy they will be absolutely run off their stocks and and and in the absence of you because you're not here hopefully some of the cars that the children have built might even survive as well you know that is so true I expect there will be a lot more successful scientific experiments and engineering feats in the other room we want people to keep liking and support and supporting us on social media as well the the hashtag bloodhound is gap as NGO has been working we have think I've had 4,000 new likes on the SSC website today and you know what we even managed to break the website early or do you think we might be able to to bring it down again later on if we push hashtag bloodhound is go well that was always the aim if you can break the website that you're on that's a good thing so I mean just thank you really for all the support that we've had today and for all the love that everybody's shown us and and all the hashtagging that's happened because loads of people with selfies tweets you name it it's been brilliant you've had fun I've had a blast thank you so much for having me delighted to have you as we heard earlier on the car will be running next year and we'll be pushing the speeds higher than we've ever pushed the before and so stand by for some exciting news with regards to that because we know it's going to be pushing speeds we don't know where we don't know what speeds but we know it's going to be doing the very hairy spike very high speed runs next year once again thanks for joining us here at Yuki let's just take a look back at some of the highlights of the day [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's been a big day has been a fantastic day we've done a lot of work over many years and over the last few weeks in files I've just shown that we can run Scarlett ice cream just cannot wait having demonstrated glad to have this go we've now got a clear plan to go faster next year and more importantly but the car that's full written proving it is not just as fast as we're expecting it's working better more reliable it's faster and the team is just brilliant [Music]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41747995
200mph is just a warm up. Their goal is 800+. The vehicle weighs 10,000 pounds, and does 0-200 in 8 seconds.
If anyone wants more information, here's Chris Harris' visit to the factory
The engineering involved is incredible
This projects been 10 years in the making, I really hope it works!
Ls swap fuel pump anyone?
I wanna hear a sonic boom from this thing.
What kind of safety features are in place on something like this? My first thought was an ejection seat, but id imagine any sort of out of control incident in that would quickly turn in to a roll due to the length and narrow wheelbase. Is it just a f1-esque safety cell and hope?
I wonder if they're going to have another BMW filming its run. Kappa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkWgFFrU2s
The guy who put the engine in my car is off to see the run this weekend, he's a sponsor. He was really excited about it!
How do you even get enough straight flat land to reach 800 mph? I'm sure running over even the slightest divot would destabilize the whole thing? Am I wrong?