Richard Noble is one such person. He’s spearheading a project called Bloodhound SSC that will visit uncharted territory on its way to a new land speed record on the far side of 1,000mph.

The full size, full length BLOODHOUND SSC show car unveiled at Farnborough (Image: Nick Haselwood) The design of the car was the result of aerodynamic research using Computational Fluid Dynamics ...

The car is powered by a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a number of Nammo hybrid rockets and a Jaguar V8 engine (Picture: Bloodhound SSC) Today’s trails will test the car’s ...

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 ...

Bloodhound SSC entered administration last October seeking up to up to £25 million (around $32 million) in funding. Project Bloodhound is now being bought “for an undisclosed amount” by ...

According to the Bloodhound SSC team, the car itself consists of "around 100,000 discrete parts -- and that’s only if you count the EJ200 jet engine, the Jaguar V8 engine and the Nammo rocket as ...

When you're the Bloodhound SSC, a rocket built solely to challenge the land speed record, you need not concern yourself with anything beyond driving in a straight line and stopping. That means ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. When finished, it will be powered by a jet engine bolted to a rocket. Together they will produce 47,500 pounds of thrust. And the retired Royal Air Force pilot who ...

A car built to go 1000 mph has completed its first public tests. The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner that uses a Formula 1 engine as a fuel pump. The needle-nose car made ...

The world's first 1,000 mph car, the Bloodhound SSC, just became bullet-proof. This car isn't going to hit the highway in a hail of gunfire, obviously. It plans to break the World Land Speed ...

The Bloodhound SSC is a car unlike any other. Shaped like a wingless airplane and powered by a Typhoon jet engine plus a custom-designed rocket, it can push out the equivalent of 135,000hp and ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, at least, this will be the Bloodhound SSC, which will attempt to achieve the land speed world record and drive more than 1,000 mph, across the Kalahari Desert in ...