… A total of 8,000 visitors have secured tickets to today’s event where they will be able to explore the jet-powered Land Speed Racer including its high-tech cockpit and rocket motors, as well as learn more about the project.
The car is the result of eight years of research and its visit to London from the project’s workshop in Bristol is the latest step in its bid to break the world land speed record in South Africa in 2017.
Bloodhound SSC is the centre-piece of a free exhibition at the east London location which booked out within days of being announced earlier this year.
Visitors will be among the first to see the completed 44ft (13.5-metre) streamliner, which uses jet and rocket motors to produce 135,000 thrust horsepower … Video and more