Twenty-six years ago, in the spring of 1997, this outrageous rocket on wheels broke the sound barrier and became the fastest land vehicle ever built. The automobile was created to revolutionize ...

The Spirit of America's design was significantly different from the Thrust SSC, with traditional front-wheel steering and a single jet engine rather than dual units like the British car.

Human beings achieved many 'firsts' in the 20th century. We climbed the planet's highest mountains, dived its deepest undersea trench, flew over it faster than the speed of sound, and even escaped ...

The ambitious British Bloodhound SuperSonic Car project ... who has held the land speed record since 1997 when he guided Thrust SSC to 763 mph, was the only candidate. Green, as unflappable ...

The British team was in charge of the Thrust SSC, a sleek, rear wheel-steered "supersonic car" driven by Andy Green, at the time a 14-year veteran in the Royal Air Force who had flown more than ...

A rocket-powered car is on track to set a land speed record of 1000 mph, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Bloodhound SSC is the brainchild of Richard Noble, the British creator of Thrust SSC ...

Back in 1997, a group of enterprising British engineers established the current record at 763mph with the jet-powered Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green. The core of that same team is now back with ...

Days earlier, after nearly a month in the high desert, Thrust-- SSC stands for supersonic car -- had set a new Land Speed Record of 1,149kph. Now its British creators were aiming to become the ...

The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with an attempt to reach 800 mph in October 2017. New funding means the Bloodhound project – which was shown in London ...

News that the Bloodhound project to break the land speed record has been pushed back to next year is disappointing, but at least the British based ... speed set by Thrust SSC in 1997.

A British supercar designed to break the world ... During its record-breaking run, Thrust SSC accelerated to 600 mph (970 km/h) in just 16 seconds and became the first car to break the sound ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, at least ... but assembled with 22,500 rivets holding it all together. Thrust comes from a Rolls-Royce EJ200 engine, which you can find on a Eurofighter Typhoon ...