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Bloodhound high-speed trials: back on
The Bloodhound Land Speed Record team has announced that the Bloodhound LSR car will run
for the rst time on its dry lake bed race track at Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa, in
October 2019.
The team will be targeting 500mph – a key milestone on the journey to setting a new world
land speed record, following successful 200mph UK runway trials at Cornwall Airport Newquay in
October 2017. The record runs are currently scheduled for late 2020.
Since the project’s relaunch in March 2019, the team have been focussing on both the
logistics of deploying the team and car to the Kalahari Desert and converting the car from its
runway design to high speed testing speci cation. This has included tting the high-speed metal
wheels, uprating springs and dampers, and adding the parachute braking system, more air
pressure and load sensors, and a re detection and suppression system.
A big technical question is how well the wheels will grip the hard mud surface; frictional
traction from the shallow V-shaped pro le will be less than 5mm at more than 200mph, until
supersonic air ow provides directional stability at greater than 500mph.
In March, Ian Warhurst, CEO of Grafton LSR, relaunched the
Bloodhound project, bringing a new name – Bloodhound LSR – a
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salary survey | 2019
Balancing the scales
in partnership with
between pay and gender
The Engineer’s 2019 survey shows a moderate
increase in salary, regional consistency and an urgent
need to address gender imbalance across the industry
This year has seen the date of our planned
Professionally registered
engineers and technicians
are earning on average
£10,000 more than their
unregistered colleagues,
according to the 2019 Salary
Survey produced by The Engineer
(available for free download on
www.is.gd/zojaze).
departure from the European Union
come and go, without offering any greater
clarity on the future of the UK’s trading
relationship with Europe and the rest of
the world.
Despite a series of meaningful and
indicative votes in Parliament, online petitions and
demonstrations on the streets, we are still no closer to
untangling the mess that Brexit has become.
The past 12 months have also seen a much greater
willingness among manufacturers such as Airbus and
Ford to place their heads above the parapet and express
their considerable concerns about the impact of the UK
leaving the EU without a deal.
And the industry has also been hit by the
announcement that Honda will close its manufacturing
plant in Swindon in 2021, with the loss of 3,500 jobs.
But how has the turmoil and indecision in Westminster
affected the UK’s engineering industry? How have salaries
fared across the engineering sectors as a result?
This year, 1,568 engineers
took part in the survey,
from 11 different sectors
Every year, The Engineer surveys professionals from
across the industry, to ask how much they are earning,
where in the UK they are based, and in which sector they
work, as well as how they feel about their chosen career.
This year, 1,568 engineers took part in the survey, from
11 different sectors. We have analysed the results to find
out which sectors award the highest salaries, how large
the gender and racial imbalances are within the
profession, and how engineers really feel about Brexit.
By comparing our results for this year with those of
previous surveys, we can determine how life has changed
for engineers over the past year.
The average salary for all engineers in 2019 is £51,253,
an increase on last year’s average of £47,896, although
this may be partly the result of a smaller survey size.
Among those surveyed, the proportion of engineers
concerned or very concerned about the potential impact
of Brexit on the industry has risen from 61.2 per cent last
year to 70.2 per cent in 2019. Concerns about Brexit’s
impact on job security have also risen slightly, up from
THE ENGINEER | JUNE 2019 1
The mean average salary for
£43.8k-£58.7k
Average salary by sector
Energy/renewables/nuclear £58,695
Oil & gas £57,167
Chemicals & pharma/medical £56,206
Food & drink/consumer goods £52,877
Telecoms & utilities/electronics £51,825
Aerospace £50,284
Defence & security/marine £50,206
Automotive £49,736
None of these £48,875
Materials £48,773
Rail/civil & structural £46,369
Academia £43,830
professionally registered respondents
is £55,968, but only 45,809 amongst
those who are not professionally
registered. This salary difference
can be seen across all sectors of
engineering and at every career level
beyond graduate trainee/apprentice,
where salaries appear consistent.
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