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 ...

After starting out slowly, the Thurst SSC accelerated around 25 mph every second until the airspeeds went supersonic both above and below the car ... project on the Thrust SSC website, which ...

Besides Andy Green, the driver, the Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car) also shares the same project director, Richard Noble, and chief aerodynamicist, Ron Ayers, as the Thrust SSC that holds 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 ...

Thrust SSC (the initials stand for SuperSonic Car). Thrust 2's success came despite the lack of any significant aerodynamic design or refinement. Going supersonic meant that aerodynamics couldn't ...

Thrust SSC was a supersonic car in that it crossed the sound barrier and was supersonic for a matter of seconds. But with BLOODHOUND, the target speed is 1,000mph - mach 1.4. It will be going ...

“The car and the team are ready to go much, much faster and start chasing supersonic world land speed ... and the director behind Thrust SSC, the car that currently holds the land-speed record ...

It’s the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world ... the Bloodhound is equipped with rocket boosters to deliver the thrust necessary to get it to 1,000 mph.

Ayers and Green are no strangers to land-speed records. They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1997 ...

The ambitious British Bloodhound SuperSonic ... pound Bloodhound SSC is fully ready for its initial run in late 2013 in South Africa. The rocket was tested to just half the thrust required to ...

Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic ... on the inside that designers hope will be enough to propel this supersonic car into the history books. “It’s a mixture of jet engine and ...