Why Breaking 1,000 mph is Almost Impossible

[@Driver61]

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[@GertieYTube]

Bloodhound SSC was going to do this, funds dried up after airport runway tests. New owners needed to be found; they renamed it to Bloodhound LSR with DID go to Haakskeenpan, South Africa and ran 1010km/h (mach 0,82). Please report on that

[@John_Dumont]

​@GertieYTube i made another comment on this vid about them, but in 2015 they came to my school and did a presentation for us. I was really hoping they would get it, im really glad they atleast broke 1000kmph

[@floijd]

But could you do it upside down, in a tunnel?

[@1_5RCBiker]

No. LSR cars require NO downforce to be acting on them as it is draggy and can crush suspension.

[@---l---]

When Red Bull runs out of other ideas...maybe

[@1_5RCBiker]

@@---l--- Red Bull and Monster have NO interest. They have already been asked.

[@aardvarkmindshank]

It’s probably possible but I’d need a willing partner 🤣

[@AS34N]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@darealsherlock8026]

13:25 "It is too round on the top. It needs to be pointy. Round is not scary. Pointy is scary"

[@jamsbong]

Supreme leader Aladeen agrees.😂

[@blackflagqwerty]

I Aladeen​@@jamsbong

[@ambiention]

I feel like I’m watching the same video 3 times in a row at the same time somehow.

[@JeffBilkins]

It does feel a bit repetitive at times.

[@rubyf1993]

This video is shit, and has very little to do with the title

[@John_Dumont]

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😂

[@floijd]

The biggest problem, while attempting this, is that the mass of the driver's balls increases so rapidly that the energy needed to accelerate further converges towards infinity at around 940 mph.

[@neddy1287]

The quote for that is "I feel the need for speed* just popped into my mind 😅

[@mercoid]

These “size of balls” comments weren’t even funny when they began to appear 15 years ago. Now they are as sad as ever.

[@KnowArt]

great video! although quite a bit of fluf and repeated info. Felt a bit like watching that video of the truck that is constantly about to crash into a pole.

[@NoHandleToSpeakOf]

Repeating yourself like a teletubbie

[@sweater7630]

Dude knows his audience

[@DeeSeaAreEss]

You missed the other big problem- finance. Every record breaking car has cost a lot and this curve steepens dramatically as speeds go up. Bloodhound LSR (effectively the same team that built Thrust SSC) seemed a long way down the road, but as far as I can tell ran out of cash. I would love to see them back on track but I doubt it’s possible.

[@GertieYTube]

Precisely, there does not seem to be enough will power to bring the funds to the table. They have built the base jet car, the race surface has been identified, it has been prepped, and they have done the validation runs up to 1010km/h (mach 0.82). They need money to develop the rocket to go with jet, but now the funds have run dry.. Unfortunately this will be similar for the upside down tunnel test. Getting the will power to provide the funds.

[@charlieives3790]

My name is on the tail of the Bloodhound , I won a competition at an event they held back when it was named Bloodhound SSC before a rebrand. I forgot about it until a couple of years ago and check in with their platforms to see if there's any updates a couple of times a year now. It's a shame to see but understandable that funds became an issue.

[@fletch9702]

Presents vid with stubble. Advertises razor while discussing how smooth his stubbly skin is. I'm not convinced. Are you?

[@Cier433]

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

[@mramisuzuki6962]

Not quite sea level.

[@JohnCharb87]

It's simple Guile's arms moves so fast he creates projectiles.

[@neddy1287]

There is an iconic photo of the shockwave that was captured by the people flying in the air in the documentary about the Thrust SSC it's a incredible feat having to go that fast

[@essuu]

I have it on my wall to remind me that all problems can be solved with enough time and money.

[@thejman3489]

1:45 You forgot Indycars. The top speed, hit by Alex Palou during the 2023 Indy 500 Qualifying, was 245mph.

[@petergerdes1094]

At what point does it just become cheaper and easier to pave a long and really flat road just for going fast? You could recover money by renting it out.

[@larryscott3982]

Build it and they will come. Is 5 mi really long enough? The issue may be, paving 25,000 ft, maybe 75 ft wide, smooth enough, and hard enough, isn’t that it’s just damn expensive. It’ll have limited intermittent use. And will require maintenance. Easily 100K cu yards of concrete. On top of 200K cu yards of base material. On top of 200K of compacted soil. I suppose it’s not nearly as much as a large dam.

[@AluminumOxide]

I'm an aerospace engineering student well into my final year of university, and I have to say you've made my understanding of supersonic effects much more fascinating and intuitve.

[@SpeakerMunkey]

Never thought I'd hear someone anthropomorphising air molecules. The reason there is a sonic boom isn't because the air hasn't been given "fair warning"

[@jaytheexplorer9016]

Could they use an internal gyro + rotating/counter masses rather than a fin and outrigger wheels to stabilize it? It's a delicate control problem, but it'd save a ton of aero drag.

[@Seventh7Art]

Part of the salt flats in the US extends to around 60 miles or 100 km which is definitely long enough to accelerate and decelerate safely.... There are also steppes in Asia that stretch over 100-200 km without hills or rocks.

[@Umski]

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 😊

[@larryscott3982]

So the greatest challenge comes from the ground. Is that because the run is not paved in concrete? In other words: Would a paved track make super sonic and even 1,000 mph achievable?

[@Zayka007]

Is it possible to put a siren in this car like an ambulance just for fun :)

[@goat3898]

So are we getting a supersonic upside down car!?

[@Hydrazine1000]

I can't remember exactly, but wasn't there a claim for going supersonic from an American team that claimed to have done it with a rocket-powered car that predates Thrust SSC? It wasn't officially recognised, since it wasn't a run in both directions. Maybe I'm remembering something incorrectly.

[@skua675]

Maybe you're thinking of Blue Flame? It was an American land speed record car that was the first to break 1,000 **kilometres** per hour, and it was rocket-powered. Thrust 2 broke its record 13 years afterwards, and then Thrust SSC broke that record.

[@Hydrazine1000]

@skua675 Ah, thank you, that might just be what I recollected in part.

[@buffaloj0e]

No the Budweiser Rocket car is the one you are thinking of, iirc it was just witness statements saying they heard a sonic boom and there wasn’t any picture/video evidence of good enough record keeping for the atmospheric conditions on the day.

[@Hydrazine1000]

@buffaloj0e Ah! So that nagging feeling that I had once read that there was an unofficial claim on Mach 1.0 before Thrust SSC was valid after all. Thank you!

[@neddy1287]

The Thrust 2 almost flew off the ground during the run over 650mph it would taken another 7mph or more it would be flying off the ground according to the documentary in Thrust SSC

[@nathanschaefer5148]

Sounds like it needs modern active stability systems induced by wing style flaps, plus reshaping of the rear opportunities for a higher Mach than expected at those speeds. It also needs to be high enough from the ground to reduce shearing drag. A system underneath to provide an air pressure cushion may be useful.

[@thomasbedford1258]

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[@JeffBilkins]

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[@robertfreeman7906]

An interesting video, but it would have been good to discuss this at different elevations above the sea with regard to the speed of sound and how the shock waves could be different

[@bashead6043]

Great work you two!!!! The concept of air is 100% different to me now LOL

I can see some AI algorithm (maybe a Reinforcement Learning) being used to help control the car while absorbing the shocks and disturbances. It may be even better to do with an AI because, well, we don't need to risk a person to do it.

[@Arno_7-a]

Would love to see a detailed technical video about water speed record and Richard Noble's Thrust WSH

[@trance9158]

Excellent interesting video...gained some knowledge.

[@blackflagqwerty]

Wen upside down tunnel?

[@sermerlin1]

But then you have to account in the massive balls the driver wields for attempting to give it a shot as you see the balls are dynamic in nature the higher the speed the more exponentially they grow, changing the weight ratio of the whole vehicle and affects the vehicles response to the sonic shocks as well as air turbulence. Engineering feat indeed.

[@michaelcooper4986]

The best place to brake 1000 miles an hour would be at altitude example Joburg or Mexico city as both or over 1000 meters (over 60 miles) above sea level

[@Wizofawes]

Curious questions: if we lowered the air pressure ( somehow), would that help reduce turbulence or increase it at supersonic speeds? would diffuser surrounding (circular or otherwise) the back of the turbines help stabilize the airflow. Also having a rod on the front of your (maybe 100 feet long) car to break the air help with the turbulence . Does the air swirls hurt or help more once at supersonic? Also what types of metal are used for the outside/engines that are different. Tia, love your videos and chat

[@ryanpuryear]

Seems like active suspension could help stability through sound wave disruptions…but would add a bunch to cost I imagine.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

The highest known acceleration voluntarily encountered by a human, set on December 10, 1954. John Stapp reached a speed of 632 mph (1,017 km/h), which broke the land speed record and made him the fastest man on Earth.

[@cloric1]

6:35 interestingly I watched a video about .22 LR bullets suffering the same issue at range.

[@buffaloj0e]

I wish Rossco and the Aussie Invader team the best of luck and I hope they get a chance to run and see what the can do. However, I feel the superior experience and engineering behind Thrust/Bloodhound SSC were a team with the best possible chance. If Richard and Andy couldn’t reach max testing after having a running car I see little chance of others getting the funding required to make attempts on the record.

[@nitrouspeed3583]

Anyone else happen to click on this video just before shaving?

[@mercoid]

I shave with an 80 year old Gillette razor handle and standard double edged blades. I refuse to use anything else. Everything else is a rip off.

[@YeahJulius]

I was waiting for another video on this😃👍

[@grege2383]

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

[@mercoid]

A thousand mph..?? Is that the “it” you are referring to?

[@benfulford3943]

He supposedly broke the speed of sound but nowhere near the 1000mph these guys are trying to do. It was claimed he hit Mach 1 but it wasn't a minor technicality. With a land speed record you have to do it twice (withing an hour). Once each way. It's a fundamental part of the speed record rules otherwise you'll just get a strong tail wind to help you along. Doing it each way negates that

[@michaelsmith2017]

May be a dumb idea but would making the fins semi rigid alleviate some of the crosswind issue. Or maybe have a perforated surface like pegboard to dissipate the lateral pressure?

[@michaelsmith2017]

Do the rules state that you have to decelerate and stop on the ground? If not, once you hit 1000Mph, why not lift off and decellerate in the air?

[@pip6136]

Who remembers chocolate sponge with light green mint custard at school?

[@rudolfglaser9664]

However, 1000 mph on land has long been old hat and is mastered by rocket sleds almost every week.And on some of them a person is also travelling with it ;)

[@natedizzy4939]

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

[@ghostwriter9266]

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.

[@vannustube]

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

[@Scoots1994]

"Almost impossible" just means hard. Every speed record ever broken was "almost impossible" until it was broken. The difference is how much money you want to spend to go faster, just like in every racing series ever right?

[@andyharris3084]

Hasn't all this been solved with the Bloodhound project including where the test location is?

[@larryscott3982]

I was hoping for a mention of Bloodhound. What’s up that?

[@ZedNinetySix_]

Is this a reupload?

[@SuperChillTunes]

Why did you say the same thing over and over and over again? Was this video made from an AI script or something?

[@brianmutonga3610]

Exaactly i noticed that, 7:06 min into the video bro has not said aythong new

[@tototakto4611]

but wouldnt you get a fine?

[@joshuahosang6690]

Right like when you force yourself on a high school student

[@Popusimy]

I’m surprised more people don’t know about this book The Censored Guide to Wealth is unreal

[@paulheinrich7645]

Railcar attached like rollercoasters?

[@dj_laundry_list]

It seems like it would be easier to just get airborne, become supersonic, then land for the duration necessary for the record

[@SupremelyAverage]

At that speed resistance from ground will shatter the vehicle and it will crash

[@jml3327]

That erases any land based speed record. It's just a plane after that, not a car.

[@rauljimenez414]

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

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Wasn't this done here before?

[@christianhorner001]

Guy Martin could do it easily

[@campervanman5340]

Before I watch this I'm going to guess the wheels will be the issue. Only because with ssc it was the biggest issue.

[@shijuokphun1379]

The target is 1000mph...but the700mph from 25years ago record still stand... Probably too ambition.

[@justintyme4690]

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

[@duncan51]

Also finding someone mad enough to do it

[@raydriver7300]

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

[@vipstarizm6990]

Big balls

[@kipsned]

Repost old episodes as new much?

[@C41N4]

1:46 Koenigsegg, Imma let you finish, but Bugatti made the fastest production car of all times (304mph) 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🎤

[@jml3327]

Koenegsegg was faster just wasn't official.

[@C41N4]

@@jml3327 All jokes aside, Bugatti’s record wasn’t official either. They only went one way, and got to 304. Got a link to the Koenigsegg video? I couldn’t find it.

[@Hugo-em9nh]

Koenegseggs fastest production car can hit 330mph (Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut)

[@unpunnyfuns]

faster than sand itself?

[@ПётрБ-с2ц]

No matter how interesting the task is it also sounds completely arbitrary and useless that a vehicle should move specifically on the land faster than sound. Would be better if they did it on the rails!

[@mercoid]

Doctor Ben Evans

[@pl0dman925]

Stupid Ads, Wrong time,

[@Android480]

A mile every 3 seconds

[@jerome8670]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@pascalfust1035]

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....

[@RamanNoodle]

Hi

[@Alexand3ry]

If part of the problem is that shockwaves from the front of the car damage the ground before the rear wheels go over it... perhaps you could also strengthen the ground itself or build a track to reduce that impact.

[@Sepp2009]

"car"

[@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv]

Air does not have ideas and cannot be warned. This a bad choice of terminology.

[@j.l9670]

But for what!?

[@Senator315]

UK, USA and 11 other small nations use MPH, the other 179 countries use KM/H. Q is, why do you use MPH apart from the fact that you're from the UK? Would it not be better to accommodate to the majority in this case?

[@AlexanderPaterson-f1e]

because 1000kph has already been broken

[@bjofuruh]

@AlexanderPaterson-f1e OK. So let´s make it 2000 km/h then.

[@jonathanpiasio4311]

Just a guess, he is probably just being accommodating for the majority of his viewers.

[@Alexand3ry]

I wonder what the rules say about vacuum tubes and maglevs? Could you create a mile-long vacuum tube for the attempt?

[@abbofun9022]

Believe it must be a free moving vehicle, I.e. no rails or similar stuff

[@256shadesofgrey]

One could argue that maglev would mean that the vehicle is technically flying.

[@Makaroonilaatikko_]

👍🏻

[@graemepennell]

You need to use the diamond cross section shape, think about the front of fighter planes, primarily the F22, it's designed for supercruise, which means although good engines and general shape of the plane, it needs to break the air easily. Forget about the circular shape they keep showing you.

[@Davem19835]

Well that was a pointless video

[@reaperbsc]

1,000 mph isn't that fast. That's not even mach 2... the f-22 doesn't even need an afterburner to go faster then that.

[@Jayxclusive44]

It’s fast when you’re doing it on the ground at low altitude

[@SakoRichards]

Isn’t that fast? You’ve probably never owned or even ridden in something with over 150hp. 1,000mph OVER THE GROUND is unbelievably fast. Do 180mph on a sport bike, it feels like Mach 10.

[@carllindgren7130]

:)

[@purebloodsunite7489]

Impossible, you're really flying at 0m altitude.

[@Manny32V]

Yawn

[@daveblock4061]

As cool as they are I think 'cars' are wheel driven. A jet plane that never takes off is a different animal. Would a vehicle noy be faster/safer as an autonomous computer controlled unmanned drone?

[@kamilhorvat8290]

Just because something has wheels, it still doesn't mean it's a car. It's just wrong to consider Thrust SSC as a car, since it has very little common with cars. It's more similar to an airplane with it's wings removed.

[@OliviaHall-f5o]

Your videos are always so colorful and fun! Thank you for your sincerity and talent in creating funny content!🍌😻⚫️

[@hilobo6737]

1st veiw

[@PurXion_legendary_777]

Idc

[@philiptaylor9783]

All this is very interested yes, I just can't help but think why is 1,000mph a wanted target? If it's just because it's a round number based upon the units humans have created? Then that's just silly, surely, because of all the extra risks listed here... leave it to the vehicles of the sky, the impressive benchmark has been reached for land vehicles and impressive as hell it is. Maybe create a new distance unit and the supersonic threshold is at 1000 (maybe Sonicmetre)... there; sorted.... With this said, bring back Concorde!

[@TroelsNybo1st]

Why would the rest of the world care about USAmerican measuring units?

[@reaperbsc]

The imperial system of measurement is English. Not American. We didn't invent it.

[@TroelsNybo1st]

@@reaperbsc Yeah, right. And Fahrenheit was German.

[@tomr200199]

The Bloodhound LSR (or SSC as it was previously) is a complete laughing stock. So much time and money has been wasted on it. I was at University when it was first touted, it's engineering was a joke then and when I enquired about certain design aspects a decade later, the people working on it at the time had no idea how to answer. I imagine it was run by a bunch of engineers who had no clue what they were doing and were just happy taking more and more money to 'work' on the vehicle. Embarrassing really.

[@8bits955]

it like any R&D project, no one has any idea what they were doing, it never been done before. It done through a combination what we know already and what we need to find out through trial and error. Until we can reach the results we want. One of the reason why R&D project often goes overbudget or get shut down, is because that unknown factor. You can plan it as much as you want but when you researching into the unknown there will be setbacks and won't always go as smoothly as you want. It not like it a well established field like designing ICE where there is already so much experience in that field.

[@trance9158]

What sort of engineering feats have you accomplished... Embarrassing really. What a defeatist mindset. Let me guess you failed engineering so you're bitter.

[@trance9158]

Go work for Elon.. you'd fit his half assed Tesla crap.

[@tomr200199]

​@@trance9158 bless you. At least Tesla has created something that has real-world implications, rather than wasting years and years of engineering careers and R&D money to produce exactly nothing.

[@tomr200199]

@@8bits955 They had all the data from the 763mph car, it's not a well established field, but they weren't going in blind. The concept never changed, it's like they sketched a concept in '08 and tried to bludgeon it in to working for the next 15 years... but it was never going to work. I'm sure they realised that early on too, but they were married to the idea and forged ahead when they should have gone in a different direction. I hope someone breaks the 1kmph target soon and that land speed records disappear with it. They don't add to anything, there is no reason why you would want a wheeled vehicle to travel those speeds in a straight line, there is zero utility to it. Engineering careers have been wasted and drivers lives ended.

[@hendrikwordehoff6191]

1,000 mph will not get them anywhere near the current land-based speed record for a vehicle: 0 - 6,416 mph (Mach 8.5) in 4 seconds over 3 miles in 2003 at Holloman AFB (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_sled)

[@Wizofawes]

Curious questions: if we lowered the air pressure ( somehow), would that help reduce turbulence or increase it at supersonic speeds? would diffuser surrounding (circular or otherwise) the back of the turbines help stabilize the airflow. Also having a rod on the front of your (maybe 100 feet long) car to break the air help with the turbulence . Does the air swirls hurt or help more once at supersonic? Also what types of metal are used for the outside/engines that are different. Tia, love your videos and chat