The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring ... 600-horsepower race car engine just to turn a pump that sends peroxide to the rocket engine at 1,200 psi; it generates 20 tons of thrust between that ...

This was set 22 years ago by another British car, Thrust SSC. The driver back then was the same as in Bloodhound today - RAF pilot Andy Green. "The stability and confidence [Bloodhound] gives me ...

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This mark tops the 403mph (648km/h) recorded by Donald Campbell in his Bluebird CN7 car in 1964. The only British cars to have gone faster are Thrust2 and Thrust SSC which both got well above ...

The folks behind the Bloodhound SSC project have been working toward ... and a rocket to produce a combined 21 metric tons of thrust at full gallop. With that kind of power situated a few feet ...