Cracking 1,000 mph

By Ryan Loveland and Ryan Ellis

(Bloodhound SSC Vehicle)

The team of engineers behind Bloodhound SSC have just created a vehicle they claim will reach speeds of over 1,000 mph. That means it can drive a mile in less than 4 seconds."Measuring 13.5 meters in length and weighing 7.5 tons, the car's dual rocket and jet engines will produce the equivalent of 135,000bhp of thrust" (Condliffe). All that power is made from a rocket engine, a jet engine, and a supercharged Jaguar V8 engine. The current land speed record is 763 mph, set by the Thrust SSC vehicle and the engineers behind it. But reaching 1,000 means breaking the sound barrier. This can cause many new problems for the engineers to face such as keeping the vehicle on the ground, allowing the car to breathe, and keeping the wheels on. 
Read more about the car here, or watch a cool video about it.

Info from: http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-engineering-of-the-worlds-first-1-000mph-car-1732795926