Richard Noble

Project Director

Against a background of today’s low risk culture, Richard specialises in developing high risk ventures. Obviously not all of them can be successful, but the Thrust2 programme which brought the World Land Speed Record back to Britain in 1983 and the ThrustSSC first ever supersonic land speed record programme are the best known.

Other projects include the ARV Super2 light aircraft, the Atlantic Sprinter Blue Riband contender, Programme Funding, an original television funding company, and the last, Farnborough Aircraft, which is creating the first point to point taxi aircraft.

These projects all started very small and being original in concept attract only very limited resource.

Photos:

Richard Noble with a model of BLOODHOUND SSC.

ThrustSSC and Thrust 2 models

Nick

Phillip Harrison chief exec Protocol National

Phillip Harrison chief exec Protocol National with Richard Noble

Richard Noble checks out the lower mould, now ready for lay up

Sept 2012: Richard Noble checks out the lower mould, now ready for lay up

Bloodhound Technical Centre

Stefan Marjoram

In Search of Speed

Friday, 5 April, 2013 - 07:39

University of the West of England (UWE) film students used BLOODHOUND as the subject for their final year project. They visited the BLOODHOUND Technical Centre, conducted interviews with the team and produced this fantastic film:

Credits:
Written and directed by Keith Scott
Director of photography Ollie Green
Sound by Chris Waywell
Edited by Anna Rashleigh
Visual effects by Flock London
Key animation supervisor Tav Fleet

Richard Noble visits the Northern Cape

Thursday, 17 January, 2013 - 14:18

The opportunity for the Bloodhound team to say thank you to the Hakskeenpan workers and their families came about when Richard Noble visited the Northern Cape in December. The mammoth task the workers have undertaken over the past year was to clear the 20 km track of 6,000 tonnes of stones and rocks, resulting in the first world record associated with the Bloodhound Project – the largest land mass cleared by hand and the equivalent of 4,000 football pitches!

MTN signs up to support BLOODHOUND SSC

Friday, 8 June, 2012 - 17:08

MTN signs an agreement with Bloodhound SSC to create land speed record and inspire future generation to take up careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Castle Precision Engineering to make Bloodhound's wheels

Wednesday, 9 May, 2012 - 14:30

On the 30th April, we announced our wheel manufacturer, Castle Precision Engineering, who will take on the manufacture of both the UK runway and desert wheels. and we took the full size show car to their site to introduce the project to their workforce.

Bloodhound sends Cornwall College SuperSonic

Wednesday, 28 March, 2012 - 13:49

The Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) team sped into Cornwall College Camborne from 11th to 13th March during National Science and Engineering Week with a full-size replica of the car they hope will break the Land Speed Record.

Measuring over 12 metres long and nearly three metres tall at the fin, the show car was impressive and gave an incredibly true representation of what the actual car will be like once it’s built.

Blogs

Richard Noble's Diary - December 2012

Sunday, 30 December, 2012

I was thinking about President Obama this morning and the awesome responsibility he holds. It seems that we are both flogging though the Christmas break to try and try and improve our organisations.

If we get it wrong then Bloodhound is in for one Hell of a fight for survival – if the President gets it wrong we are all in for a global recession! So no pressure there! Christmas is actually a good time for us to revisit the planning: it’s also a chance to escape the vortex and get the clear thinking done ...

Richard Noble's Diary - October 2012 update

Sunday, 28 October, 2012

With each month the hurdles get much much higher but this is a great team and we can take it ...

Richard Noble's Diary - June 2012 update

Monday, 25 June, 2012

I started writing this last month and I am going to leave the first paragraphs in as they give a good flavour of the pace of the project at that time :

Richard Noble's Diary - March 2012 update

Monday, 2 April, 2012

Welcome back to the Noble Monthly Report! The last one was in December 2011 and I daren’t call these quarterly reports or else you would only get them annually! Andy Green manages a monthly report on the BBC website which sends our web stats soaring, but here I have a real problem – Bloodhoun

Richard Noble's Diary - December 2011 update

Monday, 12 December, 2011

Late again! Very late again! Apologies! I last updated in August and Nick Chapman has just sent me a third email prod.

Richard Noble's Diary - August 2011 update

Wednesday, 31 August, 2011

Well, we have made it through August and the last months have been enormously productive as the whole Bloodhound programme matures and comes togethe

Richard Noble's Diary - June 2011 update

Monday, 6 June, 2011

Apologies are due yet again! My last update was December and I must try and do a lot better than this! The project has picked up a fantastic pace now and because the team is so small when compared with the project scale, the personal workload is massive.

Richard Noble's Diary - December 2010 update

Tuesday, 28 December, 2010

Late again – but it's the end of the year and we are going strong! The sheer intensity of the project which is now increasing at a massive pace tends to mean that we are dealing with detail on a minute by minute basis and it takes a break like Christmas to give us a chance to look back to see wh

Richard Noble's Diary - September 2010

Tuesday, 14 September, 2010

Thank God August is behind us! For us August is a dead month – key contacts are on holiday and we lose half the team for their breaks. That’s uncharitable, but the reality is that everyone needs the break –it's getting very tough now as the project advances into the build and delivery phase.

Richard Noble's Diary - June 2010

Monday, 14 June, 2010

I apologise – my web updates always seem to be late and I feel I am letting you down!

Richard Noble's Diary - March 2010

Tuesday, 2 March, 2010

We started BLOODHOUND officially in June 2007- that was 33 months ago – 33 months of hell at my end keeping the programme afloat – but this next week we believe the Aero team will come up with the final shape of the car. We had all hoped to get there by November – but it just didn’t happen.

Richard Noble's diary update - December 2009

Monday, 21 December, 2009

I’m late again – the workload here is massive and getting time for creative writing is proving really difficult!

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