In October 1997, Wing Commander Andy Green went spearing across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in the Thrust SSC jet car, setting a new land speed record at 763mph. It’s a record that still stands to this ...
Speed is everything in the automotive realm, but if you're going to be record-breaking fast, you might as well look incredible while you're at it. Luckily, the aerodynamic demands of true speed beasts ...
Thrust SSC was born. Ayers’s subsequent “retirement” projects included designing the Farnborough F1 aircraft and the JCB Dieselmax that took the land-speed diesel vehicle record from 200 mph to 350 ...
BLOODHOUND SSC during construction at the Bloodhound Technical Centre, Avonmouth, summer 2015. Author provided It was a staggering feat, a car that went faster than the speed of sound. On October 15 ...
Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic, there’s a new kid on the block – and it wants to claim its crown. The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with ...
It was a staggering feat, a car that went faster than the speed of sound. On October 15 1997, Andy Green travelled across the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, in the Thrust SSC at 763.035 mph, or Mach 1.02.
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