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LOL! I posted those at the beginning of October. She is funny, the ones where she talks to her reflection or tries to eat 10,000 calories in a day are hilarious.
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A bit on Bloodhound after the "medium" speed testing. Which shows how skewed their scaling is - "slow" is up to 250mph, "medium" is up to 650mph. It gives some details on some design decisions that might seem a bit odd (such as mounting the heaviest part of the vehicle near the top) and some of the difficulties in dealing with the front of the vehicle throwing up sand at supersonic speeds. That's some serious sandblasting, which had to be considered as part of the aerodynamics. I think the oddest little detail was that the trigger controls on the steering wheel were scavenged from a couple of drills bought from B&Q. The steering wheel is 3D printed titanium, state of the art no expense spared stuff. But the triggers were off mass produced domestic drills. They wanted something comfortable, rugged and designed to handle vibration. So why reinvent the wheel? Although they did have to reinvent the wheel because the outer edge of the wheels would be subject to ~500KN of force and there weren't any wheels that could handle that.