Days earlier, after nearly a month in the high desert, Thrust-- SSC stands for supersonic car -- had set a new Land Speed Record of 1,149kph. Now its British creators were aiming to become the ...

This is the path that led to him developing the Thrust SSC. Despite being the vehicle's designer, Ayers never drove it, but instead that task was left to former British Royal Air Force pilot Andy ...

The Spirit of America didn't set any records when it set that top speed back in 1997, because it was trounced by the 750 mph British Thrust SSC. That doesn't stop the Spirit of America being the ...

the British Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) effort has been working on a rocket-powered car it hopes to use to smash the vehicular land speed record, currently held by the 763-mph Thrust SSC with ...

the Thrust SSC vehicle, were tested. Both these locations have military evaluation centres. Bloodhound's 45cm-wide, 3.6m-long (18in by 12ft) rocket will be British designed and built. It will burn ...

Dieselmax was conceived as a showcase for the engine and British engineering generally, said owner Sir Anthony Bamford. Dieselmax and Thrust SSC are connected by more than a shared pilot—Bamford ...

The vehicle's driver will be wing commander Andy Green, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, who set the current speed record of 763 mph with Thrust SSC in October 1997. The three-year mission will be ...

It is Thrust SSC which set the existing land speed record in 1997. Its driver was Andy Green. The former RAF pilot is also the driver in Bloodhound. Thrust SSC's all-time record was set in America ...