A 1,000 mph car has been successfully tested using a rocket that a British team hoped to move the car past the sound barrier.
The car which is known as the Bloodhound SSC is the largest rocket firing in the U.K for over 20 years.
"The rocket will be twinned with a fighter jet engine from a Eurofighter Typhoon on the Bloodhound supersonic car in a bid to smash the existing world land speed record of 763 mph set 15 years ago by the same team in Thrust SSC," Reuters reported.
The British team started the propulsion system inside an aircraft shelter in Newquay Cornwall Airport. It was originally created to protect from bomb attacks for fighter planes.
Fox News reported that the engine runs on "liquid high test peroxide oxidizer and solid synthetic rubber fuel and uses the V8 from a Formula 1 racing car as an ignition system."
The Engine was designed to create 80,000 hp and 27,500 pounds of thrust, Fox News reported.
The engine will be installed in a car that is still currently under construction. The car will also include a Typhoon fighter plane jet engine.
The team was pleased with the rocket test. Andy Green, who is the Royal Air Force pilot who will drive the car for the record bid said to Reuters, "That's exactly what I was hoping to see. "That was a hugely successful, very, very important experiment for us."
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