And then, of course, there was breaking the sound barrier itself ... pilot Andy Green of approaching the sound barrier, who drove the Thrust SSC to set its world record. "The car tended to ...

With a two-way average of 763mph, Thrust SSC had driven on land at Mach 1.02. While breaking the sound barrier is quite an event, the records discussed above were relatively quiet affairs by ...

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Twenty-six years after its record-breaking runs, the Thrust SSC remains the fastest car ever built and the only one that broke the sound barrier.

In 1997, the Thrust SSC team landed a world record when its ... and subsequently, the sound barrier. Foremost, it's well known any car starts to move around as speeds climb higher and it doesn ...

He set the current world land speed record on October 15, 1997, in another British jet-propelled car called Thrust SSC. It was the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.

Green became the first human being to break the sound ... that breaking the sound barrier in a car was impossible and that it would somersault down the track. But Green said that driving Thrust ...

The Thrust SSC was silent in its menacing and deliberate ... Is what I'm saying. Breaking the sound barrier on land isn't just a game of tempting fates, however. It's also an incredible technical ...

Thrust SSC technically became the fastest land vehicle not once but twice, as its initial record-breaking run didn't quite break the sound barrier. The first run clocked an average speed of 714 ...

The physics of flight involves four forces acting upon the aircraft in the form of lift, weight, thrust ... flight is that any object breaking the sound barrier produces a sonic boom.

It was set by former Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green in 1997, driving the Thrust ... speed of sound is now straightforward for supersonic jet aircraft — but breaking the sound barrier a few ...