There isn't a point, other than the fact that this is a vehicle for engineering excellence. That's the whole point. That's science and engineering for you, one thing feeds off another and another. Some things are transferable and go on to greater things, some not. But only by doing all this sort of stuff do we advance.
Bloodhound LSR. Some cool footage and some news.
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Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Latest tweet from the team while they try to sort out a snag with a temperature sensor
“Just straight lines in a desert right?Look again. See how the twin lines on the left are closer together than those on the right? That’s because the wider apart rear wheels aren’t directly following the fronts. Andy Green calls this ‘1 degree of yaw’. You and I call it oversteer”
“Just straight lines in a desert right?Look again. See how the twin lines on the left are closer together than those on the right? That’s because the wider apart rear wheels aren’t directly following the fronts. Andy Green calls this ‘1 degree of yaw’. You and I call it oversteer”
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
we are recruiting more engineering undergraduates than ever in mechanical, aerospace and automotive engineering. Only area suffering is electronics and electrical. Although interest in manufacturing eng has died
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
given what I know about the size intake on those disciplines I the 1970s, I'd say way more. possibly double........
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
I’d say that there were probably more companies back then? And don’t get me started on some ‘modern apprenticeships’ grrr!
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
what's that got to do with it? You talking about manufacturing eng?
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Well. ‘If’ there were thousands more manufacturing and maintenance companies back in, say, 1970, and they all ran apprenticeship schemes, that might mean there were more apprentices then than now, even though larger (but fewer) companies might be recruiting more of them now.
Since January 2000 I’ve worked at four aircraft maintenance facilities. And off the top of my head, I’ve seen around 25 apprentices go through those companies. That’s not impressive, and there really aren’t as many aviation engineering companies as there were fifty years ago.
Since January 2000 I’ve worked at four aircraft maintenance facilities. And off the top of my head, I’ve seen around 25 apprentices go through those companies. That’s not impressive, and there really aren’t as many aviation engineering companies as there were fifty years ago.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Today’s piccie. 350mph, only three wheel tracks left by a four wheeled vehicle
Today’s piccie. 350mph, only three wheel tracks left by a four wheeled vehicle
Crosswind?
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Peco
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
I’d guess so. Bloodhound is quite sensitive to them.
martin clark
pinko bodger
Today’s piccie. 350mph, only three wheel tracks left by a four wheeled vehicle
Dumped an airbag one corner and gone for a lowrider low&slow tricycle pass? They'll have it hopping on remote control next...
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Maybe check the tracking. Might have kerbed it hard when parking, or summat.
562mph, not so much as breaking sweat..
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
628mph this morning. That’s the 1,000kmh cracked. This is good steady progress.
