Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
IT’S World AIDS Day on the December 1and to mark the occasion STRAY are holding a special event from 7.30pm until late. The night will feature entertainment from local comedian and compere Terry Titter, international cabaret artist Eddie Wallace plus Mr Swing himself Alan Cross. Also on the bill is Paris from X-Factor and other acts are promised.
Cars and Motorbikes - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
In 2011 a team of British boffins and engineering geniuses will take their Bloodhound SSC, powered by a Eurofighter jet engine and a rocket motor, to a South African desert where current land-speed record holder Andy Green will attempt to...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
RAF wing commander Andy Green writes a diary for BBC News as his team tries to build a car to smash the land speed record.
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Wing Commander Andy Green poses today in front of a three-quarter scale model of the front section of the Bloodhound SSC. Wg Cdr Green will be the one at the helm of the 1,000mph vehicle From The Daily Mail: British engineers have started building what they hope will be the world's fastest car - capable of reaching 1,000mph. The Bloodhound SSC (Supersonic car) will be powered by a jet engine from Eurofighter...
eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A little more than a year ago, we reported about something called the Bloodhound project, a group headed by Richard Noble and Andy Green that is working on a vehicle that can hit a top speed of 1,050 mph. The duo is out to beat their own record, and the current land-speed record, of 766 [...]
T3.com News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Designs for a car, which will attempt to break the world landspeed record using a Eurofighter Typhoon jet engine, have been finalised, with hopes that it will top the 1000mph mark for the first time ever. The £10 million Bloodhound Supersonic project, which is aiming to smash the 12-year-old record of 763mph, will be built here in the UK, in Bristol, prior to its run on a dried-out lake bed...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Bloodhound is a car being designed to run at a swooshing one thousand miles-per-hour . That's 1,609 km/h, which is way faster than the speed of sound. As the video shows, it'll have more thrust than the Eurofighter combat jet: Of course, the car has yet to be built, let alone break that record. But the effort is quite serious, these people are not amateur, and they have serious sponsors. It will use...
The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
British engineers have started building a car, which they hope will break the land speed record by more than 200mph – the Bloodhound, as the car’s called, is designed to travel faster than 1,000mph, The Times reports. 1,000mph is far in excess of the speed of sound and the equivalent of crossing four football pitches every second. The present record of 763mph was set in 1997 by the RAF...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
British engineers have started to assemble a car that they hope can go as fast as 1,000mph, with the Bloodhound SSC being built at a warehouse in Bristol. The Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SCC) is the latest project headed up by landspeed legend Richard Noble, and he hopes that it will help inspire a new generation of engineers in the UK. The car is aiming to hit the heady heights of 1,000mph and will...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Three engines, one brave pilot and a new record in sight It warms the cockles of this journalist's heart to see that there are still people out there who just want to go faster and faster, just because they can. I'm not talking about boy racers in their Citroen Saxos making a nuisance of themselves on British roads though. Meet Bloodhound. This latest British effort to break the land speed record...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
From New Scientist: Strapped into a custom built seat, Andy Green prepares for the ride of his life. The pancake-flat desert stretches out for miles ahead. The computer indicates all systems are normal. He eases off the brakes and puts his foot down on the throttle. The jet engine roars into life. In precisely 42.5 seconds he'll be travelling 1000 mph. In a car. "It's almost impossible to tell...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I’M off for a bit of Jiggery Pokery tonight. The play about the life of Carry On star Charles Hawtrey is on at the Unity Theatre and continues until tomorrow as part of Homotopia.
TechMarketView - Please go to www.TechMarketView.com... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
(By Richard Holway 5.00pm Tuesday 10th Nov 09) Just thought you might like to make a note in your new 2010 diary for the 2010 Intellect Regent Conference . It’s on Thurs 4th Feb 10 at the Lancaster Hotel in London. Personally I think it has the BEST line up for a long, long time. And I’m not just saying that because our very own Anthony Miller is on the bill . The complete line up looks...
TechMarketView - Please go to www.TechMarketView.com... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
(By Richard Holway 9.30am Tuesday 10 th Nov 09) Logica announced the creation of a new ‘global service line’ in Business Consulting to be headed by Patrick Guimbal . Earlier this year, Logica established a Global Outsourcing Services line. Amanda Mesler (currently heads Logica North America) takes on the role of Chief Client Officer. For the record (and those subscribers who increasingly...
T Jantunen.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RAF fighter pilot Andy Green intends to get behind the wheel of a car that is capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the Bloodhound car will mount an assault on the land speed record. Wing Cmdr Green is writing a diary for the BBC News Website about [...]
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trymi | 07/04/2009
World Land Speed Record holder, Andy Green, will be steering the 325 hp Insignia VXR (OPC) during Goodwood’s hillclimb course this weekend. General Motors’ Vauxhall division, which made the announcement, further stated that Green had been a British Royal Air Force pilot, the first and so far, the only person, to break the sound barrier on land.
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