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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46480342

How every disappointing after all that.

 TWS

Shame!

I'm sure it was a good few weeks back that I read about this being cancelled, strange the BBC are just reporting it now. 

Impressive hardware, very disappointing.

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/raf-get-bloodhound-missiles

(ps Airfix did a nice kit in the 60s!)

 Bummer! 

I got my name on the tail fin as a gift from work years ago, that's what jinxed it!

I think the 25 Mil cash needed jinxed it

Finger on the pulse at the BBC .  

And who needs to go anywhere at 1000 mph ? 

Still a shame.  A lot if work went into that for people involved.  

That's a real shitter .  Almost like buying a plot on the moon only for it to be blown up. 

I think they ran into problems a few weeks ago, and now have decided they cannot carry on, hence the two reports.

shame.

But much worse for mankind 

In the current dismally pessimistic environment raising cash on goodwill is challenging. 25 years of collecting for Macmillan and this year has been tough. It’s as if people were worried something bad is going to happen.

Really?

But we don't know the full story. A car designed for 1000 mph achieved 200 mph in 2017. What has it done in the year since? Perhaps the potential investors judged that the design was not up to spec. 

Putting 'Ben Dover' on it was bound to cause a cock up!

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I think the 2017 test was never intended to achieve greater than this, they were testing at Newquay Airport which is far too short for it to get fully up to speed, it was merely intended to test that things were behaving as predicted and to validate that the modelling for the sub-sonic aerodynamic simulations was correct.

Personally I think it's a shame that the project has folded, however I suspect there are quite a few people who considered taking up engineering as a profession as a result of seeing someone doing some bloody brilliant engineering seemingly for the hell of it! I look forward to the next bunch of mad men who wish to do something of this ilk, I would be seriously tempted to try and join them.

Well, of course it's a great pity. I've followed very closely the Thrust program, particularly Thrust2, ThrustSSC, and have a great admiration for those involved, particularly Andy Green and Richard Noble. Their machines which achieved 633 and 763 mph looked mean and (just) up to their designed tasks, whereas the latest Thrust does not look convincing. 

Me: [1] to get round the whole M25 at 3 AM in 8 minutes. [2] To get from London to Capel Curig in 15 minutes

Very disappointed.

I went to see it, or, at least, a scale model of it, and a presentation at Arborfield a couple of years ago - I got the impression then that they were pretty confident with the project, given the amount of work they'd done in South Africa. The presenter was saying how much painstaking effort had been going on in preparation for moving there, including removing some 35 tonnes (or something) of stones and gravel, by hand, to build a track for the attempts.

It did seem rather premature to me, given they weren't planning on going there for another couple of years, but I guess if there was a problem, they'd've needed the time to find somewhere else.

Never mind the fascinating technology, aiming for a land speed record for turbine and rocket propelled vehicles is a rather anachronistic and backward facing. Give me something like the solar race across Australia or, if it has to be high speed racing, Formula E any time. 

Not sad to see this fail.

CB

Bloodhound saved

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46591860

I'm gutted about it. I paid to have my name on the tail fin years ago. Projects like that have a massive effect on national pride and our standing on the planet, which in turn generates billions for the economy from inward investment.

Did you read the post that preceded yours!?