LONDON (TIP): The world’s first supersonic car which aims to run at 1000 miles per hour (1,609km/h) will be unveiled to the world later this month.

Speed enthusiasts will for the first time be able to lay eyes on a car with a jet engine — normally found in the Eurofighter Typhoon and a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets — developed to power the next generation space launchers on September 24 in London’s financial hub — Canary Wharf.

The machine will then go on display for the public over the next two days.

Engineers putting together the Bloodhound Supersonic Car said the 135,000 thrust horse power (equal to 180 F1 cars) land speed racer will be presented without the carbon fibre bodywork on one side, in order to show the car’s inner engineering.

The team said, “Visitors will see that 98% of the car is here including the Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet engine in place as it will be when Bloodhound targets 800mph in 2016, as well as the supercharged Jaguar V8 engine used to pump oxidiser into the rocket. The public will also be able to view the completed cockpit — Andy Green’s supersonic office — and see the first pictures from the car’s on-board cameras.” Project Director Richard Noble said “Public interest in Bloodhound is incredible and we simply can’t get enough people into our Bristol Technical Centre to satisfy demand. We realised too that we have a unique opportunity to show the car before its carbon fibre and titanium skins are fitted in place, so people can see the extraordinary engineering inside. With the car nearly complete our fund raising effort is now all about getting to South Africa and setting a new record in 2016”.

Driver Andy Green breached the 500 mph (804km/h) recently – 50% of the speed the Bloodhound Supersonic car will ultimately travel.

One hundred and ten man-years have been invested in the design, build and manufacture the car which is on track to challenge the land speed record later this year in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

The Bloodhound team scoured the globe to find the perfect desert to run the car on, it needed to be at least 12 miles (19km) long, two miles (3km) wide and perfectly flat.

The Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa was selected.

At full speed Bloodhound will cover a mile (1.6km) in 3.6 seconds, that’s 4.5 football pitches laid end to end per second. Green is a serving fighter pilot with the Royal Air force in UK.

“The trick at such high speeds is to keep the car on the ground. We need the track to be absolutely clear of even the smallest stone, ensure there are no wildlife or birds around and see to it that the air brakes and parachute works to stop the car after reaching the highest speed,” Green, who visited India last year to watch the Grand prix said.