When was the thrust ssc built

Marvel at these spectacular feats of British engineering. Bring the curriculum to life! Family Fun. We thoroughly believe there is no such thing as being too old for play! We also have free to loan family activities which are available at the Box Office. Previous Next. In achieving an average speed of over mph in at Black Rock Dry Lake, Nevada, it became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.

Commemorative Plaque. The strategic mounting and positioning of the engines, placement of the tires, management of safety and control of lift force were just some of the team's mechanical and aerodynamic solutions to problems that would have prevented Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green from achieving his record-setting run.

Image: Wikimedia Commons. Open to the Public. For more info visit Museum website at www. ASME Membership 1 year has been added to your cart. We have also recently signed a major new sponsorship deal which means that the funding is now in place to start the vehicle testing. We will finally discover whether or not all of our design and modelling work has been correct.

This is the moment that the adventure gets real. Did we get it right? We have not done real world wind tunnel testing or rocket sled testing to double check our results. Back in the s, when computer modelling was the primary tool for the aerodynamic design of Thrust SSC, extensive validation of the computer model was undertaken using a scaled model of the car strapped to a rocket sled. Comparison of data originating from the scaled rocket sled model and the computer predictions gave the Thrust SSC engineers the confidence they needed to press ahead and build the car.

This time we are doing things differently. Computational aerodynamic modelling has come so far in the last 20 years that this time around we will be using the car itself to validate the computer model that was used to design it. The surface of the car itself is covered with about pressure sensors and data from these sensors will be compared with the computer model predictions that were used to design the car in the first place.