Bloodhound – Missile – Fast car

Well I’m not going to stop drinking Spitfire Ale :D:D

Roger Smith.

I dont have any issues with calling a missile Bloodhound – although I should add that despite what you see in Southern US films – a bloodhound is a scent hound and when it finds someone – it just usually licks them..

I have an issue that just because someone is involved with one item doesnt make using the same name on an unrelated product correct.

The name Bloodhound has been associated with the breed of dog for several hundred years and for a missile for less than 50.

If someone was involved in making paper gaskets for a Spitfire and then moved onto making feminine hygiene products and also called them Spitfire – the angst on this forum I guess would be slightly higher!

Anon- thanks for allowing use of your Phantom Sim at Millon last year – my daughter was very impressed with it!

…any clips of a Bloodhound launch around?

Try this:

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=35332

The launch sequence must be in slow-motion…..and missile size ‘enhanced’ on the film before impact!

Looked after the things whilst at North Coates but never saw one launch, thankfully, any clips of a Bloodhound launch around?

Also the fact that car will be powered by both a Rocket and a Jet Engine, as was the Missile (Though in the case of the missile, the rockets were only there to get the (Ram)Jets going. Yes Ron Ayres was the chief aerodynamascist on the Bloodhound Mark II missile (which was a little bit more than just a soupped up Mark I missile (The Spitfire and Hurricane share more common componants than those two marks of the same missile). As for the name of the missile, The Red Duster missile program got the name of Bloodhound, because it homes onto the target, like a Bloodhound and was the prefered name for the system given to MoS by Bristols. HQ Fighter Command wanted to name it after a Snake, while the Eng Arm Branch suggested it be named with a word starting with SA (for Surface to Air), like Saturn. The name picked for the weapon was finally selected in early 1956. (Read the MoS file about the naming of Bloodhound at Kew a few years ago).

From a post I made a few weeks ago after having been to a lecture by Richard Noble

“I wondered why the name of the proposed 1,000+ mph car was “Bloodhound”? Yes, there is a connection with the Bristol missile. The cars designer is Ron Ayres (spelt right?) who was the aerodynamascist on the Bloodhound missile.

The project is estimated to cost £6.5m and it will be built in Bristol. What impressed me is the way it has become a learning resource – already 2000 schools in the UK are linked and 70 engineering ambassadors are on board and thats just for starters.”

So, TWO connections – the aerodynamascist and Bristol:)

Roger Smith.

Bloodhound in cockpit

That looks like my Phantom sim cockpit;) In fact, that’s me trying to squeeze the bone dome on the dogs ‘ead.

Bloody nice picture old boy. Hadn’t realised that among Clement Freud’s many talents he’d been a Phantom fighter jock.

Anon.