How do you engineer a car to go faster than 1000 mph?
Sarah Dorey and Oli Morgan, REME Bloodhound SSC Ambassador at British Army
The Bloodhound team's challenge of pushing a car through the sound barrier has ensured they have had to break a few engineering boundaries. But that is only half the story. They have also set their sights on encouraging the next generation to become engineers." Project "What engineering challenges have been faced. update on the progress of the challenge The test run in South Africa, STEM, Rocket Car challenge for Kids
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
How to get to 1000 mph?
How to slow down from 1000 mph?
British Army involvement in the project
The receiving environment (South Africa)
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
The BLOODHOUND Project is a global Engineering Adventure, using a 1000 mph World Land
Speed Record attempt to inspire the next generation about science, technology, engineering
and mathematics.
• Aim
• Inspire the next generation about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
• Share an iconic research and development programme with a global audience.
• Set a new World Land Speed Record of 1000 mph.
• Sponsor media exposure.
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
• Key to 1000 mph
• Power plant
• EJ200 Jet engine
• HTP hybrid rocket
• (Jaguar V8 engine to power the fuel pump)
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
• Key to 1000 mph
• Power plant
• EJ200 Jet engine
• HTP hybrid rocket
• (Jaguar V8 engine to power the fuel pump)
• Aerodynamics
• CFD
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
• Key to 1000 mph
• Power plant
• EJ200 Jet engine
• HTP hybrid rocket
• (Jaguar V8 engine to power the fuel pump)
• Aerodynamics
• CFD
• Slowing down
• Air resistance
• Air brakes
• Disc brakes
• (Parachutes)
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
• Army involvement
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• Support build and deployment of BLOODHOUND SSC
• 1 + 5 Technicians on a commercial contract
• Why?
• Stepping up to inspire the next generation
• Professional development for REME personnel
• Positive retention and recruiting messaging
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BRITISH ARMY TEAM LEADER - Major Oli Morgan REME
• Army involvement
• Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
• 1 + 5 Technicians
• 1 + 5 Technicians on a commercial contract
• Why?
• Stepping up to inspire the next generation
• Professional development for REME personnel
• Positive retention and recruiting messaging
• Educational Ambassadors
• +250 trained
• School visits/shows
• Rocket car trained
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• Testing
• Newquay Airport (Easter 2016)
• South Africa – Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape (~Oct 16)
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47. MIER – THE RECEIVING ENVIRONMENT
POPULATION 7003 (tonight only….)
AREA 22,468 km2 (8,675 sq mi)
POPULATION DENSITY 0.31/km2 (0.81/sq mi)
CHILDREN (0-14) 32%
WORKING AGE (16-64) 61%
UNEMPLOYMENT 65%
HIGHER EDUCATION (20+) 5%
• MOST SPARSELY POPULATED MUNICIPALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
• POOREST MUNICIPALITY PER CAPITA IN SOUTH AFRICA
• HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF INDIGENT POPULATION IN SOUTH AFRICA (> 90%)
• GINI COEFFICIENT EXCEEDS 0,9995 (WHERE 1 = MAXIMAL INEQUALITY)
PRIMARY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 1 (FAILED)
SECONDARY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2 (FAILED)
TERTIARY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 3 (TRANSIENT)
QUARTERNARY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 5 (SOCIAL)
48. MIER – THE SOCIO ECONOMIC DRIVERS…?
• Your livestock potential is about 2 small stock units per hectare
• Livestock mortality is high due to saline ground water
• Your pumps yield less water than a bottle of beer
• The only mineral being mined is salt (you scrape it off the surface)
• You need to travel 200km to get fuel (that’s a tank full return trip !!!)
• Nobody has a job – nothing works…
SO WHATIS THE MOST IMPORTANT
SOCIO ECONOMIC DRIVER ?
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50. BUT INSPIRATION IS NOT ENOUGH…
cat·a·lyst
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noun
noun: catalyst; plural noun: catalysts
a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without
itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.
a person or thing that precipitates an event.
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52. Construction on Phases A1, A2 and
A3 started w/c 18 May 15.
The construction period is 11 months
and the line should be in operation by
March 2016.
Construction on Phase A3 started at
Philandersbron and will continue in a
upstream direction towards Groot
Mier.
· Construction of a HDPE temporary
HDPE pipeline between the finished
section between Rietfontein and
Hakskeen pan. (Water from
Rietfontein boreholes.)
· Utilization of boreholes close to
Hakskeen pan.
· Transporting of water by tanker
trucks from the finished section east of
Askham over a distance of more than
80km.