A San Francisco start-up has
developed a car that could be a game changer for the auto industry. Lit
Motors' C-1 bridges the gap between a car and a motorcycle, providing
the safety of a car without the high ongoing costs of ownership. Because
the vehicle is electric, commuting costs are negligible: "You can get
to work and back for less than 50 cents a day,"
Hmmm looks neat enough.
Somebody Come and Play! Earn as You Learn, Grow as You Go!
Somebody Come and Play in "Traffic" with me. If you would like to "Join" A Growing Biz Op! Here is Your Chance to get in an Earn While You Learn to Do "The Thing" with us all here at Traffic Authority.
Hidden behind a house in Spanaway,
Washington, is one of the best privately owned collections of
motorcycles in the country. The collection includes a full set of
Harley-Davidson Knuckleheads.
Special
futures; long front fork legs, ride control,16"wheels, Front stand, rear
stand with sand pads, speedometer without trip meter, clutch release lever
with one hole, early type luggage rack, early type horn, civilian style
air cleaner, civilian style tail lamp, iron heads etc. http://milwaukeebelle.skyrock.com/1.html
Weitab vom sonstigen Harley-Davidson-Klischee mit verchromten
Motordeckeln und brüllenden Auspufftüten bewegt man sich mit diesem
Vehikel. Gilt es doch normalerweise als Biker zu glänzen, geht es hier
zuallererst darum, von der Stelle zu kommen.
So wie seinerzeit der
Cowboy auf der Ranch in Kansas, wo dieses Nutzfahrzeug mit ehemals
„truck registration" aus dem Schlaf gerissen wurde, kann sich dieser
Harley-Enthusiast auf sein Trike immer verlassen. Diese Maschine ist
unkaputtbar.
Hatten die Amerikaner seinerzeit auch der absoluten
Zuverlässigkeit ihrer Motorisierung wegen, Hitler-Deutschland von der
Braunen Pest befreit, taten die etwa 40.000 Servicar aus Milwaukee, für
den mobilen militärischen Vorwärtsdrang immer klaglos ihren Dienst.
Schön zu sehen, dass dieser Biker diesem „Schlachtross" sein wohlverdientes Gnadenbrot auch noch weiterhin garantiert.
I Can't read this But the Bike is Kicking and brings back a lot of fond memories of my Grandfathers Trike.
Bloodhound SSC (officially capitalised BLOODHOUND SSC, BLOODHOUND supersonic car) is a car created by the international education initiative Bloodhound Project (BLOODHOUND Project) to attempt a 1,000 mph world land speed record.
The team aim to break the land speed record with the pencil-shaped car, powered by a jet engine and a rocket designed to reach 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h) together with a Cosworth CA2010 Formula 1V8 petrol engine auxiliary power unit.
It is being developed and built with the intention of breaking the land speed record by 33%, the largest ever margin.[1]
If £15 million of sponsorship funding is obtained the construction
should be complete by the end of 2012 and the record attempts should
take place in 2013 and 2014.[2]
BLOODHOUND SSC will be tested on the Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South
Africa where a track 20 km long, 500 m wide has been cleared by a local
workforce, employed by the Northern Cape Government.
Richard Noble, engineer, adventurer, and former paint salesman,[3] reached 633 mph (1,019 km/h) driving turbojet-powered car named Thrust2 across the Nevada desert in 1983. In 1997, he headed the project to build the ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, an RAF pilot, at 763 mph (1,228 km/h), thereby breaking the sound barrier, a record first for a land vehicle (in compliance with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile rules).
The task of driving the Bloodhound will fall to Wing Commander
Green, who will lie feet-first in the Bloodhound SSC. As the car
accelerates from 0-1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h) in 42 seconds, he
will experience a force of approximately 2.5g (two-and-a-half times his body weight) and blood will rush to his head.
To slow the vehicle, Green will deploy air-brakes at 800 mph
(1,300 km/h), and subsequently parachutes at 600 mph (970 km/h), with
disc brakes used below 250 mph (400 km/h). As he decelerates,
experiencing forces of up to 3g, blood will drain to his feet, with a risk of driver blackout.
To condition his body for these intense g-forces, he will practice in a
stunt aircraft, flying upside-down over the British countryside.
Design
The project is based in the former Maritime Heritage Centre on the Bristol harbourside, located next to Brunel's SS Great Britain. This building has been renamed the Bloodhound Technical Centre (BLOODHOUND Technical Centre).[citation needed]
Aerodynamics
The College of Engineering at Swansea University
has been heavily involved in the aerodynamic shape of the vehicle from
the start. Professor Oubay Hassan, Professor Ken Morgan and their team
have used Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) in order to provide an understanding of the aerodynamic
characteristics of the proposed shape, at all speeds, including
predicting the likely vertical, lateral and drag forces on the vehicle
and its pitch and yaw stability.[4]
This technology, originally developed for the aerospace industry, was
validated for a land-going vehicle during the design of ThrustSSC. It
was this involvement with the previous land speed record that prompted
Richard Noble to approach Swansea in April 2007 to see if they could
help with this latest challenge.
Swansea University's School of the
Environment and Society was also enlisted to help determine a new test
site for the record as the test site for the ThrustSSC record attempt
has become unsuitable.[5]
Wheels
The four 36-inch (910 mm) diameter wheels will rotate at up to 10,200 rpm and will be forged from solid aluminium to resist the 50,000 gcentrifugal forces.[6]
Construction
Engineers produced the scale model which was exhibited at the launch,
and will integrate the engineering behind the car into its curriculum,
working with design team, led by Chief Engineer Mark Chapman. The car
will be built at a site in Bristol.[7]
The site will include an educational centre.[8] A full scale model was unveiled at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow,[9] when it was announced that Hampson Industries
would begin to build the rear chassis section of the car in the first
quarter of 2011 and that a deal for the manufacture of the front of the
car was due.
Chief Engineer Mark Chapman says, "We aim to shake down the
vehicle on a runway in the UK at the beginning of 2013."
Full scale model
Education
The Bloodhound Project is first and foremost an education project
designed to inspire future generations to take up careers in science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
by showcasing these subjects in the most exciting way possible.
The
education program covers all phases (ages) of education from primary
through to secondary and further education, plus Bloodhound@University.
Any school, teacher, youth group or home educated family in the world
can register their details on the BLOODHOUND SSC website and download
the free curriculum resource materials.
Education institutions in the UK
or South Africa can request a visit from a member of the Bloodhound
education team or STEM Ambassador who will work alongside a teacher and
deliver a presentation on the project.
There are also workshop
activities for schools with a focus on learners aged between 9 and 14
years of age and the reasons why Hakskeenpan in the Northern Cape has
been selected to run BLOODHOUND SSC.
The Bloodhound education program
is also working with other STEM interventions and initiatives to ensure
the Project reaches as many schools as possible. These include F1 in
Schools (Bloodhound Class), the Smallpeice Trust, Primary Engineer,
Science Made Simple and Young Engineers.
Equinox Graphics is proud to present
the visualization of Bloodhound SSC, the trans-sonic rocket car aiming
to smash the current land speed record and raise it to a mind-bending
1000 mph (Mach 1.4).
The car is being designed and built in Britain, and
Equinox Graphics has had the privilege of working in association with
the design team to bring the car to life.
The minute-long viral video
was produced on time and at High Definition (1920x1080, 25fps, full
GI/radiosity) in just three weeks - including rendering time on our
computer cluster.
The animation has proved extremely popular with
the world's media, and has proved to be the ideal medium for engaging
the public's imagination. It has so far been featured on BBC news (TV
and online), and on stations as diverse as CNN and Al Jazeera.
More detail at www.bloodhoundssc.com and www.equinoxgraphics.net
