The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that ... World Land Speed Record and also claimed to be the first supersonic speed record as it breached the sound barrier ...

“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 ...

(1,046kmh) He was then project leader for Thrust SSC, a supersonic car driven by RAF squadron leader Andy Green that travelled faster than the speed of sound and broke the land speed record at 763mph ...

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 ...

A team of British engineers is aiming to smash the land-speed record by building a supersonic car that will travel at ... Some of the SSC’s most important 3,500 components include a one tonne ...

He embarked on a mission against the odds to do just that, and his efforts were documented in a now-archived BBC documentary, "Supersonic ... car, and by the time they'd done it, Thrust SSC ...

Not only does the Thrust SSC look like some sort of strange airplane ... so the driver has to be prepared for that. Then airflow goes supersonic over the top of the car, changing things further, ...

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 ...

Inspired in large part by five-time LSR holder Craig Breedlove's plans to build a supersonic car, Noble set out to break the sound barrier with Thrust SSC. He relinquished driving duties to Royal ...

How a supersonic vehicle withstands the increased ... by another British jet car called Thrust SSC 22 years ago. "Thrust SSC was an incredible vehicle, and it achieved a remarkable thing of ...

Bloodhound car is driven by a Rolls-Royce EJ200 turbofan ... It was set by former Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green in 1997, driving the Thrust SSC supersonic vehicle in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

Above: The Bloodhound supersonic car reaching 491 mph prior to its 501 mph run. The Bloodhound supersonic car project that appeared to be dead and buried a year ago is very much back on track ...