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 team took the engine to max reheat (aka afterburner), while Bloodhound SSC Driver Andy Green sat in the cockpit throttling the jet engine with his right foot. The car was tied down to a secure ...

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 ...

Ultimately, the team, headed by Richard Noble, hopes to break the current record, of 763 mph (set by Thrust SSC in 1997) by a long shot. Testing for the Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) effort will ...

Johannesburg - The Bloodhound Supersonic Car (Bloodhound SSC), which aims to break the current world land speed record and reach 1600km/h, reached a significant milestone yesterday as it successfully ...

Britain-based Bloodhound Programme Limited was developing a car called the Bloodhound SSC in an effort to raise the record from 763 mph—set by Andy Green in the ThrustSSC in 1997—to over 1,000 ...

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 ...

To travel at 1,000mph, you need to ride on some special wheels. David Robson discovers how the Bloodhound SSC project is cracking a dastardly design problem. The Hakskeen Pan desert in South ...

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 ...

South African wireless antenna producer Poynting on Tuesday reported that it had been selected to design and build antennas for the Bloodhound supersonic car (SSC) that will attempt to beat the ...

South Africa's Beverly Singh, an engineering graduate from Port Elizabeth, is the first recipient of the Bloodhound SSC Chevening Scholarship ... "On the website of the SA Institution of Chemical ...

Want to know what it feels like to hit 1000mph? This is our first look inside the cockpit of the Bloodhound SSC, the new supersonic rocket challenger looking to set a new world land speed record.