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Bloodhound SSC is going to be really, really fast
Jamie Vardy of Leicester City is currentlythe fastest player in the Premier Leagueat 22.02mph* - it would take him around 160 seconds to cover one mile at full pelt (if his lungs will let him). The Bloodhound SSC will cover that same distance in 3.6 seconds…
*as of November 2015
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Cover your ears, it's loud!
Rock legends Kiss are said to bethe loudest band in the worldafter reaching 136 dB at a gig in Canada, but even that isn’t loud enough to drown out the engine of the Bloodhoud, which drops in at an ear-shattering 180 dB. Andit sounds even more hellish…
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It'll struggle to find a parking space
The iconic Hackney Carriage (or black cab) is famed for having aturning circle of only 8 metres. Bloodhound SSC on the other hand is a little more unwieldy, at a whopping 120 metres. Try pulling a U-turn in that!
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It's faster than a speeding bullet!
Superman may have been faster than a speeding bullet, but he’s from the planet Krypton so his records don’t technically count on Earth. The Bloodhound SSC on the other hand, is most definitely from this planet, and at its peak speed of 1050mph it will be faster than a bullet fired from a .357 Magnum.
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A bolt from the blue!
During the 100m final of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt became the fastest man on two legs when he set a world record of 9.58s. Taking reaction speed into account,Bolt reached hismaximum speed of 27.44mphsomewhere between 60-80m, so it took him a blisteringly quick 6.46-8.07 seconds to hit that pace.
The Bloodhound SSC beats Bolt hands down though, being able to reach its top speed in only 55 seconds. But that's not all, when the rocket fires up the car will accelerate from350mph to 410mphin only 1.5 seconds. Blink and you’ll miss it!
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It is going to be a smooth ride
The stretch of land at theHakskeenpanin South Africa, where the Bloodhound SSC will make its record attempt, is 12 miles long, but has only 40cm of undulation. That makes it comparatively smoother than a snooker table.
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It has a tough track record
It took 317 people from the local community 120 days to clear 18,500 tonnes of stone from 21.5 million square metres of the Hakskeenpan desert – by hand!
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It's breaking some smaller records already
Educating and inspiring the next generation of engineers is big on the list the Bloodhound team’s agenda, so with the help of Guinness World Records they created theBloodhound Model Rocket Car Challengein an attempt to break the speed record of a model car. The current record is held by pupils from the Joseph Whitaker School Young Engineers in Nottinghamshire, whose model Insanity reached 533.10mph - that’s 445mph faster than the 2011 record.
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You can find more incredible Bloodhound SSC facts at www.bloodhoundssc.com/project.
