More than 8,000 people are expected to see the 1,000mph supersonic racer which is on display until Saturday at Canary Wharf, London.
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The team behind the vehicle will carry out 200 miles per hour trials at Newquay Aerohub in Cornwall next year, before going to South Africa for a series of high-speed runs in the desert.
Bloodhound was assembled at Avonmouth, near Bristol, and is the result of eight years of research, design and production by more than 350 companies and universities.
Andy Green, now 52, is the current record holder having achieved the feat in Thrust SSC at Black Rock Desert in Nevada in 1997, and will be driving the bloodhound.
The vehicle is served by a Rolls-Royce EJ2000 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a cluster of Nammo hybrid rockets and a Jaguar V engine that drives the rocket oxidiser pump.
With a fighter jet engine and rockets, the sleek 135,000-horsepower auto is as powerful as 180 Formula One racing cars and will go faster than a bullet.
In addition, Stemmer Imaging supplied an Optronis high-speed camera and a UV camera from JAI, both of which were used to make measurements of the rocket plume during testing past year.
“This week was the first time it left the assembly point – looking at it you just think ‘wow, ‘” he said.
Visitors are also able to look inside the finished cockpit – a huge and complex monocoque crafted from multiple layers of carbon fibre – and see the sophisticated digital dashboard. A team of Formula 1 and aerospace experts built the Bloodhound, with help from the British Royal Air Force, and Army engineers.
Sharing the experience in this way is a core principle of the project, central to its mission to inspire a future generation and get them excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Mr Noble said: “Public interest in the project is incredible and thanks to the generous support of our partners we are delighted to able to bring Bloodhound to London and put it on show”.
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To attempt the record, a special track has been built in South Africa (we’re guessing it is very long and very straight). Universities involved with the project have seen record numbers apply to study engineering.
