A follow-up to the Thrust 2, the jet-power car that broke the land speed record in 1983, the SSC looked more like a wingless jet fighter than a car. Yes, it had four wheels, but they were hidden ...

The design has been finalised for the Bloodhound SSC, set to smash the world land-speed record as the first car to hit 1,000mph. Not so handy on the school run though Bloodhound SSC jet car to hit ...

The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, was 763.035 miles per hour, or 1,227.985 kilometers ...

The Thrust SSC used two Rolls-Royce Spey jet engines, but the only reason the team could afford them in the first place was thanks to Noble's shrewd negotiation skills.

This expansion produces a jet thrust capable of lifting a 1-kilogram steel ball, demonstrating thrust comparable to conventional jet engines. Tang’s approach differs from other plasma propulsion ...

Jet Thrust Generation: The high-temperature plasma rapidly expands as it exits the ionization chamber. This expansion produces a jet thrust capable of lifting a 1-kilogram steel ball, ...

An arrow-shaped car designed to reach supersonic speeds — it's outfitted with a jet engine and its own parachute braking system — just reached 501 mph (806 km/h) in tests in the Kalahari ...

They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1997, setting the current world land-speed record of 763 mph. Ayers ...

Jet Thrust Generation: The high-temperature plasma rapidly expands as it exits the ionization chamber. This expansion produces a jet thrust capable of lifting a 1-kilogram steel ball, ...

Measuring in at 13.5 meters (44 feet) in length and 7.5 tons in weight, the Bloodhound SSC is capable of producing 135,000bhp. This is all still theoretical at the moment, since the car hasn't ...

The land speed record has stood at around 763 miles per hour since it was set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC back in 1997. The former air force pilot turned jet car driver was set to break his own ...

THE Thrust SSC became the first car to break the sound barrier yesterday reaching 764.168mph, but failed by one minute to set the world's first supersonic land speed record. Under international ...