The British team Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is comprised of some legendary land speed experience. Richard Noble was the man behind the Thrust SSC—the car that set the current land speed record.

The Thrust SSC used two Rolls-Royce Spey jet engines, but the only reason the team could afford them in the first place was thanks to Noble's shrewd negotiation skills.

The Thrust SSC is a record-breaking car that broke the sound barrier 26 years ago and still holds the world land speed record.

Ayers would learn much on Thrust SSC—and another land speed car, 2006's diesel-powered JCB Dieselmax—that would inform his design for Bloodhound SSC.

In 1997, the Thrust SSC team landed a world record when its car set the world land-speed record of 763 mph. But, taking a car like the Thrust SSC to speeds above 700 mph isn't a simple as holding ...

In the end, the Thrust SSC team, which had set earlier records in the Black Rock Desert in 1982, achieved a land speed record of 714.144 mph on Sept. 25, 1997, then topped that with its supersonic ...

With a 1000-mph land-speed record in sight, we check in with the mighty Bloodhound SSC.

Sometime in 2017, the Bloodhound SSC could become the fastest car in the world. The previous record was set in 1997 by the Thrust SSC, driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, after the car achieved a ...

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.

The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring of the Thrust SSC that set the world land speed record in 1997, RAF pilot Andy Green blasting across the desert at 793 miles per hour. Whereas Thrust SSC was ...

Secret: Analyzing core samples taken from Black Rock, the Thrust SSC team correctly concluded that the porosity of the dry lake bed would actually absorb the shockwave and lessen its affect on the ...

Following in the footsteps of barnstormers of old, a team of scientists and engineers from the UK have started work on a new SSC, or Super Sonic Car. With their sights on the land speed record ...