A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will first mount an assault on the world land speed record (763mph; 1,228km/h). Bloodhound should start running on Hakskeen Pan in Northern Cape, South Africa, in 2017.

As Project Bloodhound starts its preparations to run the car in South Africa next year, the many complex pieces of our "Engineering Adventure" are gradually coming together.

This month, at the Farnborough International Airshow, we did our first "test load" of the full-size show car into the 747 freighter aircraft that will take the car, and all of its support equipment, to South Africa next year.

We're very lucky to have the support of the new British cargo airline, CargoLogicAir, and their brand new 747-8F.

This is the biggest 747 ever, and can carry an amazing 138 tonnes of cargo in a loading bay 60m long (think the length of a tennis court, then double it, then add another 12 metres. It's huge).