With all of the high profile media generated by BLOODHOUND lately, a lot of attention has been focussed on the team. All of a sudden, I have become inundated with questions about how I ended up with a placement with such a prestigious project. Rather than answer all of the emails, comments and tweets individually (and reduce the amount of design work I am doing even further), I have decided to write about how I ended up here with the BLOODHOUND team and what I would suggest to the rest of you possible-industrial-placement students.
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It is quite simply an honour to be working on the Bloodhound Project, not just because it is going for a Land Speed Record, but also because I have the chance to work with some of the greatest characters in design and engineering history. Richard Noble once held the Land Speed Record, he also ran the Thrust SSC project, and is the man responsible for Bloodhound.
I managed to nab him at the end of a very long day at Goodwood for an interview…
It is rare to meet someone who has boundless enthusiasm for something as technically challenging as Bloodhound SSC. I had the pleasure of interviewing two of them in one day. First of these is Bob, a 1k club member who has not only read Richard Noble’s book many times, but has also traveled across country to the 1k club events and even to Coventry to see Thrust SSC. Today he even got tickets to Goodwood, just to come see us! I feel I should mention at this point, he is only just going into year 10…
My first interview for the newly nicknamed ‘Bloghound’!
In the glorious sunshine of Rockingham Speedway I took the opportunity to talk to Dawn Fitt, one of the members of the Bloodhound Education Team and my co-presenter during the fabulous Alphabeat Show…
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