What Happens When You Push a Car to Mach 1?

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  • @Driver61
    @Driver61  16 дней назад +13

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    • @GertieYTube
      @GertieYTube 16 дней назад

      Bloodhound SSC was going to do this, funds dried up after airport runway tests. New owners needed to be found; they renamed it to Bloodhound LSR with DID go to Haakskeenpan, South Africa and ran 1010km/h (mach 0,82). Please report on that

    • @John_Dumont
      @John_Dumont 16 дней назад +3

      ​@GertieYTube i made another comment on this vid about them, but in 2015 they came to my school and did a presentation for us. I was really hoping they would get it, im really glad they atleast broke 1000kmph

    • @kopi314
      @kopi314 10 дней назад +1

      It's funny to see a shave ad with a five day beard.

    • @nelsonjejd3188
      @nelsonjejd3188 7 дней назад +1

      @Driver61 what music did you use in the video? thanks

  • @floijd
    @floijd 16 дней назад +564

    But could you do it upside down, in a tunnel?

    • @1_5RCBiker
      @1_5RCBiker 16 дней назад +13

      No. LSR cars require NO downforce to be acting on them as it is draggy and can crush suspension.

    • @---l---
      @---l--- 16 дней назад +17

      When Red Bull runs out of other ideas...maybe

    • @1_5RCBiker
      @1_5RCBiker 16 дней назад +12

      @@---l--- Red Bull and Monster have NO interest. They have already been asked.

    • @aardvarkmindshank
      @aardvarkmindshank 16 дней назад +5

      It’s probably possible but I’d need a willing partner 🤣

    • @AS34N
      @AS34N 16 дней назад

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @KnowArt
    @KnowArt 16 дней назад +141

    great video! although quite a bit of fluf and repeated info. Felt a bit like watching that video of the truck that is constantly about to crash into a pole.

    • @pakhilnair
      @pakhilnair 15 дней назад +8

      Exactly. 😂 Well said.

    • @b0bcorp
      @b0bcorp 13 дней назад +1

      Hey, gotta make up the length to play the algorithm somehow...

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 12 дней назад +2

      ​@@b0bcorpThere's a fk ton of more engineering required.
      Even the wheels themselves are a marvel, each forged from a single billet of aluminium, otherwise they explode.
      Managing the incredible thrust required from various propulsion units.
      All the different braking stages as the car slows down.
      Managing to turn it round and prep for another run within the hour.
      Track selection and preparation.
      OK, OK I'm a bit of a nerd on this.
      But even just glossing over all aspects would be a few hours of video.

    • @z50king29
      @z50king29 11 дней назад

      I love that gif

  • @darealsherlock8026
    @darealsherlock8026 16 дней назад +165

    13:25
    "It is too round on the top. It needs to be pointy. Round is not scary. Pointy is scary"

    • @jamsbong
      @jamsbong 16 дней назад +8

      Supreme leader Aladeen agrees.😂

    • @blackflagqwerty
      @blackflagqwerty 16 дней назад

      I Aladeen​@@jamsbong

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 15 дней назад

      If you don’t look at it, the points aren’t really there. Like avoiding eye contact in a lift after you’ve passed gas.

  • @stevegarcia4034
    @stevegarcia4034 14 дней назад +12

    Challenges not mentioned. The jet or rocket exhaust blast acts like a feathers on a arrow. When the engine is shut off directional stability is diminished. Stopping distance at Bonneville or Black Rock is suspect due to government bureaucracy. The biggest problem is gyroscopic precession torque (GPT) of the steering wheels. When Breedlove turned Sonic Arrow on its side at 675 mph the car lifted against the wind direction, not in the direction of the wind. GPT is explained by Craig on page 248 of Sam Hawley's informative book "Ultimate Speed ".

  • @ambiention
    @ambiention 16 дней назад +178

    I feel like I’m watching the same video 3 times in a row at the same time somehow.

    • @JeffBilkins
      @JeffBilkins 16 дней назад +37

      It does feel a bit repetitive at times.

    • @rubyf1993
      @rubyf1993 16 дней назад +14

      This video is shit, and has very little to do with the title

    • @jungleb
      @jungleb 16 дней назад

      You have probably a very good understanding on the subject. For other people with no background, information is gold

    • @badjohnbad
      @badjohnbad 15 дней назад +7

      1. Some air is going supersonic around the car making shockwaves
      2. Some air is going supersonic around the car making shockwaves
      3. Some air is going supersonic around the car making shockwaves
      Razor blades intermission
      4. Some air is going supersonic around the car making shockwaves
      5. Some air is going supersonic around the car making shockwaves

    • @fyrbyrd71
      @fyrbyrd71 11 дней назад

      ruclips.net/video/Ex2NB7JsLyA/видео.html

  • @floijd
    @floijd 16 дней назад +174

    The biggest problem, while attempting this, is that the mass of the driver's balls increases so rapidly that the energy needed to accelerate further converges towards infinity at around 940 mph.

    • @neddy1287
      @neddy1287 16 дней назад +2

      The quote for that is "I feel the need for speed* just popped into my mind 😅

    • @mercoid
      @mercoid 16 дней назад +1

      These “size of balls” comments weren’t even funny when they began to appear 15 years ago. Now they are as sad as ever.

    • @Margarinetaylorgrease
      @Margarinetaylorgrease 16 дней назад

      We are approaching the singularity

    • @Margarinetaylorgrease
      @Margarinetaylorgrease 16 дней назад +2

      @@mercoid we’re not talking about the size, we are talking mass.

    • @drewfeld8483
      @drewfeld8483 16 дней назад

      Good one . . . (or TWO, if you insist!)

  • @John_Dumont
    @John_Dumont 16 дней назад +19

    I remember back in 7th grade, so 2015, the team for the Bloodhound SSC came to my school to give a presentation on what they are wanting to achieve and how they have to prep the area and get rid of as many rocks and pebbles on strip of ground that they would run on as possible.
    I got a medal from them as well because i (for some reason) was the only person that could answer what SSC stood for😂

  • @DeeSeaAreEss
    @DeeSeaAreEss 16 дней назад +38

    You missed the other big problem- finance. Every record breaking car has cost a lot and this curve steepens dramatically as speeds go up. Bloodhound LSR (effectively the same team that built Thrust SSC) seemed a long way down the road, but as far as I can tell ran out of cash. I would love to see them back on track but I doubt it’s possible.

    • @GertieYTube
      @GertieYTube 16 дней назад +8

      Precisely, there does not seem to be enough will power to bring the funds to the table.
      They have built the base jet car, the race surface has been identified, it has been prepped, and they have done the validation runs up to 1010km/h (mach 0.82). They need money to develop the rocket to go with jet, but now the funds have run dry..
      Unfortunately this will be similar for the upside down tunnel test. Getting the will power to provide the funds.

    • @charlieives3790
      @charlieives3790 16 дней назад +9

      My name is on the tail of the Bloodhound , I won a competition at an event they held back when it was named Bloodhound SSC before a rebrand. I forgot about it until a couple of years ago and check in with their platforms to see if there's any updates a couple of times a year now. It's a shame to see but understandable that funds became an issue.

  • @GaryBickford
    @GaryBickford 11 дней назад +4

    I was just reading sbout the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It is the largest salt flat on Earth, at 10,582 square kilometers or 4086 square miles - about the size of the US state of Connecticut.
    The thinner air would give a bit of an advantage. I have no idea if the country would allow this use, but it would be easy to place a track as much as 20 or even 30 miles long on it.

  • @CHLBUTTERWORTH
    @CHLBUTTERWORTH 15 дней назад +4

    Lots of fluff in the video. You had the engineer from Thrust SSC and Bloodhound but no mention at all of the only 1000mph project to actually build and test the car. He even mentions the location that Bloodhound was going to use with the Road and Mountain at either ends, its Hakskeen Pan btw.
    Marvel of British engineering and yet no mention of it.

  • @fletch9702
    @fletch9702 16 дней назад +22

    Presents vid with stubble.
    Advertises razor while discussing how smooth his stubbly skin is.
    I'm not convinced. Are you?

  • @aaryananand7288
    @aaryananand7288 16 дней назад +4

    I've made a handful of sounding rockets so far, 2 of which have broken the sound barrier, and it's insane to look at how similar the design principles are for cars and rockets. Everything from how you have to calculate aerodynamic stability, anticipate weathercocking(the effect of gusts destabilizing the vehicle), the change in the center of pressure on the body as the vehicle sweeps across different velocity regimes, the shockwave occluding fins causing dynamic instability and a whole lot of other things are all almost identical between supersonic cars and rockets.
    The amount of drag that's on a vehicle travelling in the transonic regime is insane, and pushing past that to break mach is a lot harder than people think.

  • @NoHandleToSpeakOf
    @NoHandleToSpeakOf 16 дней назад +79

    Repeating yourself like a teletubbie

  • @AluminumOxide
    @AluminumOxide 16 дней назад +6

    I'm an aerospace engineering student well into my final year of university, and I have to say you've made my understanding of supersonic effects much more fascinating and intuitve.

  • @Harald-MacGerhard
    @Harald-MacGerhard 15 дней назад +5

    That British Bloodhound SSC designed to do this is simply insane, there is a rocket engine from Nammo that I is so powerful it is like experiencing a train wreck.
    Just the sheer forces on the driver is unimaginable .....

    • @Raptorman0909
      @Raptorman0909 9 дней назад

      The approach will not work as it also uses a jet engine resulting a vehicle that has too large or a frontal area and the shockwaves produced will also be much higher than it could be.

    • @Harald-MacGerhard
      @Harald-MacGerhard 8 дней назад

      @Raptorman0909 The design is already there with jet and rocket engine 😎

  • @tHebUm18
    @tHebUm18 15 дней назад +7

    16:29 "Could be" is doing some heavy lifting.

  • @davep5698
    @davep5698 15 дней назад +3

    I have read before, in a fact book and its a memory so correct me if I am wrong, the the wheels on Thrust SSC, at the outside edges were pulling 86,000g.
    If I understand that correctly the surface of the wheel that touches the exploding ground, was trying to pull itself away from the rest of the wheel with the force of 86,000 times that of gravity. Even engineering a wheel at these speeds is hard to get your head around.

  • @neddy1287
    @neddy1287 16 дней назад +8

    There is an iconic photo of the shockwave that was captured by the people flying in the air in the documentary about the Thrust SSC it's a incredible feat having to go that fast

    • @essuu
      @essuu 16 дней назад +1

      I have it on my wall to remind me that all problems can be solved with enough time and money.

  • @marcello6810
    @marcello6810 9 дней назад

    great video. i’m majoring in mechanical engineering, and i’ve been studying for my fluid dynamics exams these last few months, listening to dr. evans on this topic, on a motorsport related channel, was fascinating (also, quite relieving to know that i studied accordingly and took notes properly in class😅).
    looking forward to more videos like this, i’ll make it to f1 as an engineer one day🤞🏻

  • @Mile-long-list
    @Mile-long-list 16 дней назад +6

    Bloodhound is or was so damn ambitious I hope they go for it. Maybe we can see it one day.

  • @robertfreeman7906
    @robertfreeman7906 16 дней назад +2

    An interesting video, but it would have been good to discuss this at different elevations above the sea with regard to the speed of sound and how the shock waves could be different

  • @jonvia
    @jonvia 16 дней назад +2

    Cop: Do you know how fast you were going?
    High speed driver: Couldnt have been more than 1000mph

  • @williamchurchill3174
    @williamchurchill3174 13 дней назад

    I am currently a student at Swansea University studying Aerospace Engineering, it was funny seeing Ben Evans the head of the Faculty of Science and Engineering on your video.

  • @briangschaefer7048
    @briangschaefer7048 16 дней назад +1

    Brilliant video Scott. I really appreciate your efforts.

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 4 дня назад

    I can't believe you did this entire video without once mentioning Bloodhound LSR.
    The car was already tested up to 628 mph in 2019 using just its EJ-200 jet engine. It has yet to run using its rocket engine in addition.
    The team were running on the Hakskeen Pan dry lake bed in north-western South Africa. This site gives approximately 11 miles of very, very flat ground. They hired local people in advance of their testing period to clear all the stones from a patch of ground 11 miles long and wide enough to give them twelve (I think) parallel runs.

  • @11131618570
    @11131618570 13 дней назад +4

    I feel these aren't cars. They're rockets designed to stick close to ground.

  • @JohnCharb87
    @JohnCharb87 16 дней назад +5

    It's simple Guile's arms moves so fast he creates projectiles.

  • @Zebraflite
    @Zebraflite 14 дней назад +1

    You could do another video on the wheels/tires. The physics and engineering are crazy too.

  • @BurcuRabia-yv8mj
    @BurcuRabia-yv8mj 13 дней назад

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  • @Umski
    @Umski 16 дней назад

    I remember when SSC came back to Coventry Transport Museum - we were invited to see it from school - it was pretty cooked at the back and dripping oil all over the floor - amazing piece of engineering seeing it close up 😊

  • @nigelgrant1976
    @nigelgrant1976 5 дней назад

    Excellent video - something the ‘ordinary’ man can understand rather than having to be a technical genius.

  • @radamus210
    @radamus210 13 дней назад +1

    I'm curious how you would adjust for the change in the balance of the car - With a run lasting what? 10-12 seconds? how much weight is in the fuel? that's a massive shift wouldn't it be?

  • @Mrdayz
    @Mrdayz 11 дней назад

    I admire your commitment to stubble when promoting shavers

  • @Seventh7Art
    @Seventh7Art 16 дней назад +4

    Part of the salt flats in the US extends to around 60 miles or 100 km which is definitely long enough to accelerate and decelerate safely.... There are also steppes in Asia that stretch over 100-200 km without hills or rocks.

    • @peterheinzo515
      @peterheinzo515 16 дней назад

      Lol where exactly are 200km flat land without hills or rocks

    • @benvandermerwe4934
      @benvandermerwe4934 15 дней назад

      Current track in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
      Thousands of tons of pebbles and debris removed.
      Company ran out of money and sponsorship.

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 12 дней назад

      Salt flats are too soft.

  • @Prometheus336
    @Prometheus336 10 дней назад

    "So basically, going forward after hypersonic speed is like trying to push through water while diving from a cliff-each millimeter you go forward...🤔
    As a poet and artist who has always loved physics, here's an idea for you:
    Why not start testing your machine by dropping scaled-down models into water in a controlled way? While water and air behave differently such tests might exacerbate enough air resistance and flow dynamics at extreme speeds. For example, 350 km/h underwater roughly translates to ~10,000 km/h in air in terms of resistance, and you wouldn’t need to go nearly that fast to break your record.
    Additionally, since I mentioned torpedoes-have you considered designing a sort of ‘cavitation shield’ for the car? Like how supercavitating torpedoes create a bubble to reduce drag underwater, maybe a similar approach could help your car slice through the air more efficiently at hypersonic speeds.
    Btw greetings from Italy and please (albeit brexit) keep the world speed record in Europe, we are rooting for ya!

  • @tankeater
    @tankeater 13 дней назад +4

    10:05 the sound "barrier" is ment in a physical sence... Not literally a barrier man. Smart people with no common sense make me laugh. 😂👍

    • @RAWRWAFL
      @RAWRWAFL 8 дней назад

      ???? So you agree (I think; your syntax is shit), but you're gonna laugh at him for explaining exactly what you're saying?

    • @tankeater
      @tankeater 8 дней назад

      ​@@RAWRWAFLno, you simply aren't understanding what I'm saying... I don't know anybody that thought of it as an actual barrier, like he was explaining. It's called over-thinking things. Think you fall into that same category. 😉

  • @aussieinvader5r
    @aussieinvader5r 15 дней назад

    Great video and explanation Scott on why the challenge is so hard. Rosco McGlashan

    • @davidhinds7634
      @davidhinds7634 14 дней назад

      Hey Rosco how close is your project at now, do you want me to drive it, ?

  • @Arno_7-a
    @Arno_7-a 16 дней назад +1

    Would love to see a detailed technical video about water speed record and Richard Noble's Thrust WSH

  • @EamonDorrian-lo1ne
    @EamonDorrian-lo1ne 11 дней назад

    Absolutely fascinating, thank you for explaining this to me.

  • @buffaloj0e
    @buffaloj0e 16 дней назад +1

    I wish Rossco and the Aussie Invader team the best of luck and I hope they get a chance to run and see what the can do. However, I feel the superior experience and engineering behind Thrust/Bloodhound SSC were a team with the best possible chance. If Richard and Andy couldn’t reach max testing after having a running car I see little chance of others getting the funding required to make attempts on the record.

  • @AndyFromBeaverton
    @AndyFromBeaverton 16 дней назад +1

    The highest known acceleration voluntarily encountered by a human, set on December 10, 1954. John Stapp reached a speed of 632 mph (1,017 km/h), which broke the land speed record and made him the fastest man on Earth.

  • @ghostwriter9266
    @ghostwriter9266 16 дней назад +2

    I would suggest to let the interviewed professor do the explanation. So the physics are clear from the beginning instead of observing a learning curve on subsonic transonic and supersonic aerodynamics that only gets correct halfway the video.

  • @petergerdes1094
    @petergerdes1094 16 дней назад +8

    At what point does it just become cheaper and easier to pave a long and really flat road just for going fast? You could recover money by renting it out.

    • @larryscott3982
      @larryscott3982 16 дней назад

      Build it and they will come. Is 5 mi really long enough?
      The issue may be, paving 25,000 ft, maybe 75 ft wide, smooth enough, and hard enough, isn’t that it’s just damn expensive. It’ll have limited intermittent use. And will require maintenance.
      Easily 100K cu yards of concrete. On top of 200K cu yards of base material. On top of 200K of compacted soil. I suppose it’s not nearly as much as a large dam.

    • @drewfeld8483
      @drewfeld8483 16 дней назад +3

      It would need to be pretty wide. Paved isn't as good as a dry lake bed that can be dragged to smooth it.

    • @S_raB
      @S_raB 16 дней назад +2

      You really have no clue how expensive high strength concrete is to pour at the tolerances required for this kind of speed attempts. Paving a single runway at Atlanta cost $1.2 BILLION and that's only 12,000 feet long. For cars going 800 - 1000 mph you'll need practically perfect level, which is part of the reason airport runways even for municipal airports of 5,000 feet length & 75 feet width cost over $10,000,000, but those don't require such extreme tolerances. To build a track would cost more than the GDP of almost every country on the planet... combined

    • @tomhejda6450
      @tomhejda6450 15 дней назад

      The car would tear pieces of any thinkable material out of the surface, which doesn't sound survivable to me. Or well, you can make it from naquahdah, but that stuff is pretty darn expensive!

    • @S_raB
      @S_raB 15 дней назад

      @tomhejda6450 They only use that stuff for generators. And there is concrete that could handle a car going that fast. It's a special type used in heavy runways (airports have specialized runways for cargo planes and Airbus 380)

  • @Jacopski
    @Jacopski 12 дней назад

    So much of this video teased about the horrors of shockwaves and how to combat it with technical aerodynamics, the rest of the video proposed the solution by having a pointy tip and a really long concrete road....

  • @JPspinFPV
    @JPspinFPV 14 дней назад

    Man, I've been following this project for years now. Seems that there have been funding issues periodically, but that's to be expected. They were once considering using a Jag F-Type engine just to power the fuel pump if I recall.

  • @jaytheexplorer9016
    @jaytheexplorer9016 16 дней назад +2

    Could they use an internal gyro + rotating/counter masses rather than a fin and outrigger wheels to stabilize it? It's a delicate control problem, but it'd save a ton of aero drag.

    • @random-iy2xm
      @random-iy2xm 13 дней назад +1

      At speed, the wheels already act as gyros so much so that steering the wheels could flip the car since the wheels don't want to change direction.

  • @EDDYHarman
    @EDDYHarman 13 дней назад

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  • @paulrapp6
    @paulrapp6 16 дней назад +4

    Something to consider: With the development of smokeless gunpowder, projectile velocities took a significant leap upward. Ballisticians gradually made pointier and pointier projectiles. A few years ago, it was discovered, serendipitously, that a flat nose projectile flies straighter and faster, with much less pitch and yaw, than the pointy variety. Not, mind, a big flat point. A small flattening of the tip is all that is necessary to achieve better projectile performance. Maybe your land speed people should talk to a ballistician or two as well as the aerodynamicists?

    • @johnthegiant320
      @johnthegiant320 13 дней назад

      Thats interesting. I was thinking, and I'm only a truck driver so this is all just imagination and lack of sleep on my part, essentially a C channel around the leading edges to capture air or slow it down so that that air could become the buffer. Obviously just a C channel, curved like that probably wouldn't be the ideal shape but I hope you understand what I'm getting at. Then I found your comment which kinda falls in line with what I was thinking overall, which is get the air in contact with the vehicle to disperse the oncoming air. Then there's how tall, how deep, etc.

  • @jimnasium452
    @jimnasium452 15 дней назад

    Iconizing Sound as a drum is perfect! 🥁

  • @Raneboh
    @Raneboh День назад

    @driver61 I don't know much about this but it is very interesting. One thing that came to mind was whether or not it would be possible to use some kind of concentrated electromagnetic emitter in the front of the vehicle (which iirc is possible to travel faster than the speed of sound) could cause enough air disturbance to trick the air into delaying the point in which it hits the speed of sound to give the vehicle time to reach mach 1 at approximately the same time the air does?

  • @ArshdeepArora256
    @ArshdeepArora256 6 дней назад

    He always comes up with something new to teach!

  • @SpeakerMunkey
    @SpeakerMunkey 16 дней назад +3

    Never thought I'd hear someone anthropomorphising air molecules. The reason there is a sonic boom isn't because the air hasn't been given "fair warning"

  • @nathanschaefer5148
    @nathanschaefer5148 16 дней назад

    Sounds like it needs modern active stability systems induced by wing style flaps, plus reshaping of the rear of the fuselage for a higher Mach than expected at those speeds. It also needs to be high enough from the ground to reduce shearing drag. A system underneath to provide an air pressure cushion may be useful.

    • @sueneilson896
      @sueneilson896 16 дней назад +1

      The previous video about the Aussie Invader vehicle details how all these problems have been addressed. And shows the experience of the guy who will drive it.

  • @thomasbedford1258
    @thomasbedford1258 16 дней назад +6

    you and your sponsor got me good talking about how close a shave it gives and your there with at least 2to 3 days growth on your face I don't believe you as you clearly haven't tried it

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      @JeffBilkins 16 дней назад

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  • @natedizzy4939
    @natedizzy4939 16 дней назад +1

    Bro... Safety razors have been around for a while now XD

  • @bashead6043
    @bashead6043 16 дней назад

    Great work you two!!!! The concept of air is 100% different to me now LOL

  • @thesebarehandsmusic
    @thesebarehandsmusic 15 дней назад

    Fascinating! Great subject!

  • @andrewahern3730
    @andrewahern3730 12 дней назад

    Scott, you forgot to mention that air going super sonic makes shockwaves

  • @reinierdeman8147
    @reinierdeman8147 16 дней назад

    Didn't see the razorburn coming. Thanks for the info.

  • @Zulu4impi
    @Zulu4impi 12 дней назад

    Curious thought experiment along the lines of Bakaroo Bonzai. A Lazer preheating the air along direction of travel reducing the drag? Theory is creating a temporary vacuum to reduce aerodynamic drag possibly eliminating the supersonic airflow pockets along the vehicle body.

  • @MrTiti
    @MrTiti 15 дней назад

    4:16 "just think about that for a second: parts of your car are already breaking the sound barrier"
    two seconds later: "because of the shape of the car" shows picture of "typical" car.
    :D

  • @andrewschlup6169
    @andrewschlup6169 5 дней назад

    Really neat video. Why do you not mention Bloodhound LSR though?

  • @timbaldwin6283
    @timbaldwin6283 13 дней назад +2

    Some people claim that the land speed record was broken by the fictional character Wile E Coyote. Early video footage of his speed runs was quite impressive but never official.

  • @thejman3489
    @thejman3489 16 дней назад +2

    1:45 You forgot Indycars. The top speed, hit by Alex Palou during the 2023 Indy 500 Qualifying, was 245mph.

  • @ryanpuryear
    @ryanpuryear 16 дней назад

    Seems like active suspension could help stability through sound wave disruptions…but would add a bunch to cost I imagine.

  • @Hydrazine1000
    @Hydrazine1000 16 дней назад +3

    I can't remember exactly, but wasn't there a claim for going supersonic from an American team that claimed to have done it with a rocket-powered car that predates Thrust SSC? It wasn't officially recognised, since it wasn't a run in both directions.
    Maybe I'm remembering something incorrectly.

    • @skua675
      @skua675 16 дней назад +1

      Maybe you're thinking of Blue Flame? It was an American land speed record car that was the first to break 1,000 **kilometres** per hour, and it was rocket-powered. Thrust 2 broke its record 13 years afterwards, and then Thrust SSC broke that record.

    • @Hydrazine1000
      @Hydrazine1000 16 дней назад

      @skua675 Ah, thank you, that might just be what I recollected in part.

    • @buffaloj0e
      @buffaloj0e 16 дней назад

      No the Budweiser Rocket car is the one you are thinking of, iirc it was just witness statements saying they heard a sonic boom and there wasn’t any picture/video evidence of good enough record keeping for the atmospheric conditions on the day.

    • @Hydrazine1000
      @Hydrazine1000 16 дней назад

      @buffaloj0e Ah! So that nagging feeling that I had once read that there was an unofficial claim on Mach 1.0 before Thrust SSC was valid after all.
      Thank you!

    • @neddy1287
      @neddy1287 16 дней назад

      The Thrust 2 almost flew off the ground during the run over 650mph it would taken another 7mph or more it would be flying off the ground according to the documentary in Thrust SSC

  • @timlong1462
    @timlong1462 15 дней назад

    Love the channel. Hensen ought to update their add for channels like this. Had a good laugh at the "aerospace grade" razor! I thought that term died out in the early 2000's when it became known there is no such aluminum. Just tell us if it's 6061, 7075, or whatever aluminum they are really proud of using. Feels goofy on a channel like this...advertisers still writing script like the late 90's.

  • @Cier433
    @Cier433 16 дней назад +2

    They should look for a location on the Atacama Desert plateau, which is at 4,000 meters, which would make the air less dense.

    • @mramisuzuki6962
      @mramisuzuki6962 16 дней назад

      Not quite sea level.

    • @tomhejda6450
      @tomhejda6450 15 дней назад

      There's maximum local air pressure allowed for these tests.

  • @MovementbyDavid
    @MovementbyDavid 14 дней назад +1

    Bro all these comments about repetition got me thinking I’m just dumb and need the repetition 😂 great video

  • @Wizofawes
    @Wizofawes 16 дней назад

    Curious questions: if we lowered the air pressure ( somehow), would that help reduce turbulence or increase it at supersonic speeds? would diffuser surrounding (circular or otherwise) the back of the turbines help stabilize the airflow. Also having a rod on the front of your (maybe 100 feet long) car to break the air help with the turbulence . Does the air swirls hurt or help more once at supersonic? Also what types of metal are used for the outside/engines that are different. Tia, love your videos and chat

    • @noncog1
      @noncog1 16 дней назад

      Lower pressure wouldnt affect turbulence in a meaningful and consistent way, would be benifitial for reducing drag tho
      The rear of the jets is how they make thrust, theyre dumping a huge volume of air at a very high speed into the air, its a high pressure zone, not low pressure
      Having a rod out front does help, many supersonic planes do this, as did the thrust ssc iirc, no point in it being more than a couple feet long though, and isnt a huge difference, and is for breaking up the air, not turbulence
      Im not super educated on supersonic turbulence, so research this one yourself, but im under the impression that it doesnt directly affect the body, in supersonic flow, shockwave forming areas "throw" the air away from the body and turbulence from the re-filling of the low pressure zone this leaves doesnt take place until after the body has already completely passed
      Due to the (comparitively to aircraft) low speeds and short duration, aerodynamic heating isnt a major factor in this case, keep in mind, many low supersonic planes dont specify body material for these speeds, and they can maintain them for minutes, as opposed to merely seconds here. Its not until we start approaching mach 3 that it starts becoming such a major issue as to require major specific consideration in design

  • @mikekent9488
    @mikekent9488 15 дней назад

    I love this. Thanks for sharing

  • @IIGrayfoxII
    @IIGrayfoxII 15 дней назад +1

    16:42 Crazy Australia?
    Nah, Mate
    He is just a normal Aussie doing normal Aussie things.

  • @PavelSusin
    @PavelSusin 16 дней назад

    Would shooting an energy beam from the front of the car, to excite the air molecules at hyper-sonic speeds - help stabilize the volatile behavior?

  • @michaelcooper4986
    @michaelcooper4986 16 дней назад

    The best place to brake 1000 miles an hour would be at altitude example Joburg or Mexico city as both or over 1000 meters (over 60 miles) above sea level

  • @C41N4
    @C41N4 16 дней назад +7

    1:46 Koenigsegg, Imma let you finish, but Bugatti made the fastest production car of all times (304mph) 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🎤

    • @jml3327
      @jml3327 16 дней назад

      Koenegsegg was faster just wasn't official.

    • @C41N4
      @C41N4 16 дней назад +1

      @@jml3327 All jokes aside, Bugatti’s record wasn’t official either. They only went one way, and got to 304. Got a link to the Koenigsegg video? I couldn’t find it.

    • @Hugo-em9nh
      @Hugo-em9nh 16 дней назад

      Koenegseggs fastest production car can hit 330mph (Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut)

    • @C41N4
      @C41N4 8 дней назад +1

      @@Hugo-em9nh Chiron was the first and so far the only production car to go over 300mph.
      Christian says the Jesko Absolute SHOULD go to about 330mph, but he hasn’t found a place and tires to test it out yet. The only test they’ve done is 0-400-0kph, which is NOT 300mph.
      But if you have a link to the video of that 330mph run, please, I would love to see it.

  •  16 дней назад +1

    I can see some AI algorithm (maybe a Reinforcement Learning) being used to help control the car while absorbing the shocks and disturbances. It may be even better to do with an AI because, well, we don't need to risk a person to do it.

  • @YeahJulius
    @YeahJulius 16 дней назад

    I was waiting for another video on this😃👍

  • @RedBentley
    @RedBentley 14 дней назад

    Thought I clicked on a superfastmatt video and was so confused by the posh production quality

  • @Joes-not-greg
    @Joes-not-greg 13 дней назад

    A poor man turning an average car into a monster always beats a toff in something they bought from the shop.

  • @tonyseath2278
    @tonyseath2278 16 дней назад

    A very complicated subject explained so succinctly
    I learned so much from this video
    Thanks muchly
    :0)

  • @ReallyStupid-j6d
    @ReallyStupid-j6d 12 часов назад

    Basically it is like hitting the air so hard that it acts like oobleck

  • @mateagoston8145
    @mateagoston8145 15 дней назад

    They might apply even more powerful rockets so they can accelerate quicker to 1000mph. That way the lenght of the track doesn't have to be that long.

  • @andraslibal
    @andraslibal 16 дней назад +1

    It is very easy to break that barrier - what is hard is to stay on the ground while doing it :)))

  • @michaelsmith2017
    @michaelsmith2017 16 дней назад

    May be a dumb idea but would making the fins semi rigid alleviate some of the crosswind issue. Or maybe have a perforated surface like pegboard to dissipate the lateral pressure?

    • @michaelsmith2017
      @michaelsmith2017 16 дней назад

      Do the rules state that you have to decelerate and stop on the ground? If not, once you hit 1000Mph, why not lift off and decellerate in the air?

    • @noncog1
      @noncog1 16 дней назад

      Semi-rigid: doesnt reduce transferred force, decreases stability
      Perforated: very aerodynamically inefficient and the disturbed flow around the perforations will create problems of their own
      Sropping in the air: lose the ability to traction break, since your wheels arent on the ground, doesnt change the issue of running out of space unless you fly quite high, the required wings add drag, now you have to incorporate and and fly controls and controls surface suite to be able to control the vehicle while in the air

    • @michaelsmith2017
      @michaelsmith2017 16 дней назад

      @@noncog1 like I said, probably a dumb idea. I'm definitely not an aerodynamicist but every now and then a blind squirrel finds a nut. 😀

    • @noncog1
      @noncog1 16 дней назад +1

      @michaelsmith2017 i totally support you coming up with ideas, I answered not to shut them down, but to help you understand. A bad idea learned from is one step closer to a good idea.
      Ive had my fair share of stupid thoughts about subjects im now well versed in

  • @TerryClarkAccordioncrazy
    @TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 15 дней назад

    There is no imperative for Britain to break the record because Thrust SSC holds it. It needs an active competitor to create a race.

  • @johnwilson6721
    @johnwilson6721 12 дней назад

    If the rear wheels are not contacting solid ground, why have wheels at all? You could have aerodynamic 'skis' and save on drag. You can tell that I am not an engineer in any sense.

  • @NBC_NCO
    @NBC_NCO 7 дней назад

    The wheels and bearings will have a huge load put on them.
    I think that will be the issue.

  • @larryscott3982
    @larryscott3982 16 дней назад +2

    So the greatest challenge comes from the ground. Is that because the run is not paved in concrete?
    In other words: Would a paved track make super sonic and even 1,000 mph achievable?

    • @scoutdogfsr
      @scoutdogfsr 16 дней назад

      The salt actually has a cooling effect on the tires. They would get destroyed on pavement. At least that is what I was told during my visit to Bonneville.

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 12 дней назад

      The wheels MUST dig into the ground.
      Not too good for any paved surface, and really really bad for concrete.

  • @Raptorman0909
    @Raptorman0909 9 дней назад

    The Thrust SST, or whatever they call it now, is not going to go 1000, not with jet engines! The frontal area of it is just too large. Additionally, the width of the vehicle will result in higher shockwave forces interacting with the ground. The Aussie approach makes far more sense as it is a pure rocket powered vehicle with smaller frontal area and a much smaller shockwave footprint. I just hope they get the funding to complete it AND find a different driver as he's too old!

  • @trance9158
    @trance9158 16 дней назад

    Excellent interesting video...gained some knowledge.

  • @blxtothis
    @blxtothis 15 дней назад

    Come on Scott, a scruffy stubble we are advertising a razor, pull the other one!

  • @owenoneil6600
    @owenoneil6600 4 дня назад

    Like cavitation in air high to low pressure collapse

  • @junebugjunebug4492
    @junebugjunebug4492 10 дней назад

    WOW!!! Crazy interesting 👍👍👍👍

  • @maxmotors9497
    @maxmotors9497 12 дней назад

    That ain’t no car, that’s a plane what ain’t got no wings😂

  • @EZEQUIELThayer
    @EZEQUIELThayer 13 дней назад

    Projects like Adaxum with strong use cases and a clear vision often lead the next bull run. Definitely worth considering!

  • @vannustube
    @vannustube 16 дней назад

    would it count if you drove through a 10+ mile long straight hyperloop tunnel that had no air in it?

  • @poindextertunes
    @poindextertunes 13 дней назад

    Aren’t there production cars with active aerodynamics? Like wings, spoilers, diffusers and such?

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 12 дней назад

      Yup, but compared to the speed of sound, they aren't production cars, they're production snails.

  • @goat3898
    @goat3898 16 дней назад +2

    So are we getting a supersonic upside down car!?

  • @AsafSagi
    @AsafSagi 15 дней назад

    I could easily design a surface capable of that, once I finish my Brilliant course. Gimme a couple weeks