Thrust SSC needed the combined thrust of two Spey jet engines to break the sound barrier. To go 30 percent faster, Bloodhound SSC will need more power than a single EJ200 can provide—at full ...

The speed of sound fluctuates with altitude and temperature ... a team of engineers is at work on Thrust's successor. The car, Bloodhound SSC, marks a bold attempt to set a new Land Speed Record ...

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 ...

The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner ... Green was the first man to break the sound barrier in a car in 1997, when he hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC. This time, he only ...

The British-built Bloodhound car is theoretically capable ... The only car ever to go faster than the speed of sound is Thrust SSC, which set the existing land speed record of 763 mph (1,228 ...

It’s the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world ... can lay claim to be the only man to have broken the sound barrier in the air and on land. In 1997, he hit 763 ...

An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it's outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h) in tests in the Kalahari ...

The current world record holder Thrust SSC is the only car till date to have broken the sound barrier; if Bloodhound SSC manages to break Thrust SSC’s world record, it’ll only be the second ...

We've already got a big box of something called "Basotech" (the same sound-absorbing foam that ... and the Nammo hybrid rocket will make Bloodhound SSC the loudest (as well as the fastest) car ...

and becoming the first and only car to break the sound barrier. That record may not stand for much longer, though. A successor, the Bloodhound SSC, has been in the works and makes its first runs ...

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 ...

We've already got a big box of something called "Basotech" (the same sound-absorbing foam that ... and the Nammo hybrid rocket will make Bloodhound SSC the loudest (as well as the fastest) car ...