I know funding has been tight
But I look at the pace of progress and I can't help but wonder. They've been in the desert 9 days and got one 99mph run out of it so far. That's not even as fast as they managed two years ago in Cornwall.
The project itself has been running for 11 years now and they're not even talking about doing record runs this year.
I also haven't heard anything about the hybrid rocket they were planning to use for years now. I don't think it's fitted to the car yet.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:45,
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To be fair, they’re on a model validation exercise, not a speed run.
They also need to be sure that the lakebed handling works at low speeds before expanding the speed envelope.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 8:10,
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So my point about the timescale stands. ThrustSSC was five years from design to breaking the record. Bloodhound is still doing low-speed runs 11 years after the project was initially announced.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 10:28,
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They’ve had a fair bit of funding trouble though
While Thrust 2 and SSC both had their own difficulties, I don’t recall them being shut down repeatedly.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 13:44,
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