Which type of wheels are required to break the 1,000mph speed record?

We all know the British Bloodhound project which aims for super speeding car.

Now Researchers from Lockheed Martin UK gets a task to build a super wheel which can with stand 1000mph speed, which they aim to break in 2010.

Research being carried are said to be very critical because during the super speed the the wheel rims will turn at about 10,200rpm, or 170 complete turns each second which produces stresses as high as 150 mps(Mega pascal) (about 1.5 tonnes per square centimetre).

To be build British Bloodhound car, it will be powered by Falcon hybrid rocket and Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, which will propel the vehicle beyond 1,000mph (1,610km/h).

Researcher had identified Aluminum alloy based wheel rim will be suitable to achieve the task and experiment are being carried out at Cambridge University.

90cm wide and weigh 97kg. aluminium alloy

Src: [BBC]

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Bloodhound Project unveils Full-scale model of supersonic car in UK aims to break Record.

Bloodhound project aims to inspires the Young Engineers of tomorrow,  has emerged  with a full-scale model of the team's actual world land speed-record hopeful. Bloodhound Education Program is a ploy to get school-aged kids into the sciences by showing them exactly what Algebra can do. The team has unveiled a 42-foot-long life-size replica of the machine that it hopes to use to obliterate the standing world land-speed record of a little over 763 mph.

So far, construction of the rear section of the machine is slated to begin in the second quarter of next year and the team claims that it's in talks with another organization to begin building the front half right now. That means we could be hearing reports of shakedown runs by the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012. From there, it's a short hop to the Hakskeen Pan in South Africa for the real trial.

Src: bloodhoundssc via Autoblog

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