Richard Noble's Diary

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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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