The Bloodhound SSC is the brainchild of Richard Noble, the British creator of Thrust SSC, which was the first car to break the sound barrier when it hit 763 mph on a dry lake bed in Nevada's Black ...

The Blue Flame’s land speed record was broken on October 4, 1983, when turbojet-powered Thrust2 set a new mile record of 633.468 mph. The kilometer record was held until 1997 when the Thrust SSC ...

The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, was 763.035 miles per hour, or 1,227.985 kilometers ...

On Oct. 23, 1970, the Milwaukee-built Blue Flame rocket car blasted through the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, setting a world land speed record of 622.407 mph for the "flying mile." ...

Bloodhound SSC Tests Hybrid Rocket Engine for 1,000 MPH Car 763 mph is the record to beat. Autoplay setting: On By Seth Tipps Updated: May 1, 2017 7:35 am ...