BLOODHOUND

The '1,000mph' Bloodhound car is so fast it needs to be bulletproof.   At 1,000mph, the car's solid aluminium wheels will be spinning at 10,200 rpm, that's rotating at 170 times per second, generating a staggering 50,000 radial g at the rim. A 1kg bag of sugar at the center of the wheel would weigh 50 tonnes.  If a piece of the wheel were to fly off, or indeed a stone lying just under the surface of the desert were to flick up, they could penetrate the incredibly strong carbon composite cockpit.  To combat this, Morgan Advanced Materials have developed a lightweight composite ballistic panel, containing millions of woven glass fibers to soak up the energy of projectiles that hit them. The panels have been fitted to both sides of the carbon fiber cockpit to protect driver, Andy Green.