The Thrust SSC project would simply never have even existed were it not for the dogged perseverance of Richard Noble and his team. Noble already held the previous land speed record behind the ...

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.

Therefore, the SSC team returned to the Black Rock Desert on October 15 for another crack at it. This time, the Green pushed the SSC to 763.035 mph (1,223.657 kph), sending a massive sonic boom ...

Bloodhound (SSC) Gang: Behind the Scenes with the Team Shooting for a 1000-mph Land-Speed Record. Mike Duff Published: Apr 23, 2015. ... Thrust SSC’s run to a just-supersonic 763 mph in 1997.

Thrust SSC was difficult to control, ... While the Bloodhound SSC team welcomes the competition that brings, Ayers remains confident the British car will be the first to 1,000mph.

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 ...

Thrust SSC Team Set Sights on 1,600 km/h Land Speed Record. Published October 24, 2008 ; Views : 3096; 2 min read ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic, there’s a new kid on the block – and it wants to claim its crown. The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed ...

If all goes well, the ultimate goal of 1,000 mph will happen sometime in 2016; a three-rocket cluster will provide the necessary thrust. The current record-holder is the ThrustSSC, which achieved ...