Its simple. Get rid of the wheels. Use skids that function like an air hockey table. Use a rocket

Why can't a rocket sled to be used to break the land speed record by attaching to rocket power car on a track

F1 v10 is the first engine car that i hear in automotive during my childhood

Two cars did it...

Something to consider: With the development of smokeless gunpowder, projectile velocities took a significant leap upward. Ballisticians gradually made pointier and pointier projectiles. A few years ago, it was discovered, serendipitously, that a flat nose projectile flies straighter and faster, with much less pitch and yaw, than the pointy variety. Not, mind, a big flat point. A small flattening of the tip is all that is necessary to achieve better projectile performance. Maybe your land speed people should talk to a ballistician or two as well as the aerodynamicists?

Great video! Thanks. Wow, all of that for one single part within the engine.

Rear wink

Limiting the number of wind tunnel runs seems like a bizarre thing to limit. Don’t they want the best car within the constraints they have set? This just seems like a good way to favor teams that either cheat, or get lucky.

It doesn't sound that hard until you look up the *low-altitude speed record for fighter jets* & see that it's *988 mph*

RIP Nigel Stepney

A very complicated subject explained so succinctly I learned so much from this video Thanks muchly :0)

Of coarse Senna one🤷🏻‍♂️ GOAT

of course its possible.

Brilliant video Scott. I really appreciate your efforts.

Even though "decelerate" is an accepted word now and even in dictionaries, I am old, and it still makes me cringe. Ha ha

Would shooting an energy beam from the front of the car, to excite the air molecules at hyper-sonic speeds - help stabilize the volatile behavior?

Skunksworks could build a 1,000 mph car. They built the SR-71 and the engineering genius just keeping the engines lit at 120,000 altitude & over 2,000 mph is mind breaking. And that's only one aspect of the greatest airplane ever flown.

I've made a handful of sounding rockets so far, 2 of which have broken the sound barrier, and it's insane to look at how similar the design principles are for cars and rockets. Everything from how you have to calculate aerodynamic stability, anticipate weathercocking(the effect of gusts destabilizing the vehicle), the change in the center of pressure on the body as the vehicle sweeps across different velocity regimes, the shockwave occluding fins causing dynamic instability and a whole lot of other things are all almost identical between supersonic cars and rockets. The amount of drag that's on a vehicle travelling in the transonic regime is insane, and pushing past that to break mach is a lot harder than people think.

Lets play a drinking game, 1 shot for each time we are told that the air breaks the sound barrier before the car does, you won't be able to walk afterwards and might even lose a couple of days. Lazy writing, possibly, and this made it the weakest written of your videos that I've seen so far. This may be harsh, but it compliments your usually very high standards of production.

Supersonic aircraft use fly by wire and computer controls. Maybe an unmanned attempt could succeed.

Cop: Do you know how fast you were going? High speed driver: Couldnt have been more than 1000mph

Didn't see the razorburn coming. Thanks for the info.

I am in Colombia watching this. 8 years here and I love it

Bloodhound is a shame for the United Kingdom.

Why not a Wankel engine running on tetrahedrane/kerosene mix?

Budweiser rocket ??

It is very easy to break that barrier - what is hard is to stay on the ground while doing it :)))

The spanish audio sounds horrible, great video but even living in Spain i hace to watch It in english for my ears

That " doctor " has a shadey name🤔

Stan Barratt breaking the sound barrier? - there is no solid proof of this

What happened to bloodhound ssc???

Bloodhound is or was so damn ambitious I hope they go for it. Maybe we can see it one day.

0:20 Shooter McGavin?

It’s all about air pressure and sound waves.

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I remember when SSC came back to Coventry Transport Museum - we were invited to see it from school - it was pretty cooked at the back and dripping oil all over the floor - amazing piece of engineering seeing it close up 😊

would it count if you drove through a 10+ mile long straight hyperloop tunnel that had no air in it?

Bro... Safety razors have been around for a while now XD

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Well that was a pointless video

They should look for a location on the Atacama Desert plateau, which is at 4,000 meters, which would make the air less dense.

Anybody can explain me the difference in design of the "new" supersonic car and the "Blue Flame" from 1970s (e.g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGrdi4alprVrhqc)? To me, they look pretty much the same....

Doctor Ben Evans

0:39 It was done and confirmed back in1979 by Stan Barret just not confirmed due to some technicalities in the rules

I would suggest to let the interviewed professor do the explanation. So the physics are clear from the beginning instead of observing a learning curve on subsonic transonic and supersonic aerodynamics that only gets correct halfway the video.

Stupid Ads, Wrong time,

Just make it hypersonic so it skips the problems of supersonic and then just deal with hypersonic problems

How do I "undub" videos now? It's dubbed to Spanish, and now I can't even find the lenguage button. I know it used to be there, I swaped a lot of videos in the past, mostly the F1 highlights that choose Latam Spanish for whatever reason

I remember back in 7th grade, so 2015, the team for the Bloodhound SSC came to my school to give a presentation on what they are wanting to achieve and how they have to prep the area and get rid of as many rocks and pebbles on strip of ground that they would run on as possible. I got a medal from them as well because i (for some reason) was the only person that could answer what SSC stood for😂

Listen to the Infinite Monkey Cage podcast on speed with Andy Green. It is brilliant 🌞