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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