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Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227145.800-tripleengined-car-could-smash-landspeed-record.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Triple-engined car could smash land-speed record

• 01 July 2009 by Robin Hague
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WHEN the supersonic car Bloodhound SSC streaks across the desert sometime in 2011 in its bid to break the land speed record, it will be powered by no fewer than three different types of engine.

A rocket will boost the car to around 1200 kilometres per hour, (Mach 1) while a Eurofighter jet engine will provide more controllable thrust to coax it up to 1600 km/h (1000 miles per hour). Finally, the car is equipped with a V12 petrol engine to pump the fuel and provide electrical and hydraulic power to the jet and rocket.

The car is being developed by a team led by Richard Noble whose Thrust SSC has held the land speed record of 1221 km/h or Mach 1.02 since 1997. Bloodhound SSC is designed to break the 1600 km/h barrier.

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