A 29-year-old Indian-origin woman from South Africa is set to join the team of specialist engineers building the world’s fastest car in the UK.
Beverly Singh, a mechanical engineer from Port Elizabeth, will help design the Bloodhound supersonic car, currently being built by a team of about 30 engineers in a high-tech centre near Bristol.
The rocket-powered car will come to South Africa in 2015 for a series of test runs (over several months) to break the sound barrier and current land speed record of 1228 km/h. In 2016, it will attempt to set a record 30 per cent faster than that: 1609 km/h.
Singh, won the Bloodhound Chevening Scholarship for her masters in mechanical engineering at the University of West of England, will join the team next month, working with engineers from companies like Boeing and Rolls-Royce, who are assembling the car, ‘Times live’ reported. “The engineers working on the Bloodhound are the best in the world in their fields. I always wanted to do something like this,” said Singh.