Just back from Los Angeles, where I went to launch a film in Hollywood.  OK, so the film was only 3 minutes long, but still, I can claim a Hollywood film launch!  The ‘Future of Speed’ was made in a Bentley Mulsanne at 190 mph on Bonneville Salt Flats (and at 190 mph, 3 minutes is a long time). 

It worked – and how! Firing our hybrid rocket in public this month, with a huge international media presence and a global on-line audience, not to mention a number of our supporters’ club Gold Members, was a little nerve-wracking. This is what we had promised from day one – an Engineering Adventure that everyone could share in ...

I’ve just had a very odd experience – someone’s sent me a video of myself appearing on Foreign Secretary William Hague’s Facebook page.  To try and explain this rather strange event, I’ll start with my recent visit to the BLOODHOUND track in the Northern Cape of South Africa. 

Richard Noble has just returned from South Africa, where he’s been catching up on the desert preparation and finalising some new sponsorship for our 1000 mph record attempt.  The Northern Cape Government team is doing a fantastic job of clearing the world’s best race track for BLOODHOUND – after

The thing about setting a Land Speed Record is that speeding up is only half of the problem.  Once you’ve gone flashing through the timing lights of the measured mile at ove