Richard Noble is one such person. He’s spearheading a project called Bloodhound SSC that will visit uncharted territory on its way to a new land speed record on the far side of 1,000mph.

The full size, full length BLOODHOUND SSC show car unveiled at Farnborough (Image: Nick Haselwood) The design of the car was the result of aerodynamic research using Computational Fluid Dynamics ...

Bloodhound SSC entered administration last October seeking up to up to £25 million (around $32 million) in funding. Project Bloodhound is now being bought “for an undisclosed amount” by ...

Britain-based Bloodhound Programme Limited was developing a car called the Bloodhound SSC in an effort to raise the record from 763 mph—set by Andy Green in the ThrustSSC in 1997—to over 1,000 ...

The car is powered by a Rolls-Royce EJ200 jet from a Eurofighter Typhoon, a number of Nammo hybrid rockets and a Jaguar V8 engine (Picture: Bloodhound SSC) Today’s trails will test the car’s ...

According to the Bloodhound SSC team, the car itself consists of "around 100,000 discrete parts -- and that’s only if you count the EJ200 jet engine, the Jaguar V8 engine and the Nammo rocket as ...

The world's first 1,000 mph car, the Bloodhound SSC, just became bullet-proof. This car isn't going to hit the highway in a hail of gunfire, obviously. It plans to break the World Land Speed ...

This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, at least, this will be the Bloodhound SSC, which will attempt to achieve the land speed world record and drive more than 1,000 mph, across the Kalahari Desert in ...

A car built to go 1000 mph has completed its first public tests. The Bloodhound SSC is a jet and rocket-powered streamliner that uses a Formula 1 engine as a fuel pump. The needle-nose car made ...

The Bloodhound SSC is a car unlike any other. Shaped like a wingless airplane and powered by a Typhoon jet engine plus a custom-designed rocket, it can push out the equivalent of 135,000hp and ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Speed enthusiasts hope to build a rocket car that can go faster than a bullet from a handgun -- and break the world land speed record. If it succeeds the Bloodhound SSC ...

Along a runway at the Newquay Airport in southwest England earlier today, the Bloodhound Supersonic Car zoomed past its hopeful goal of 322 km/h (200 mph). Described by the Bloodhound Project as ...