This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, at least ... Think of it like a NASA-grade Lego set, but assembled with 22,500 rivets holding it all together. Thrust comes from a Rolls-Royce EJ200 engine ...

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 ...

Back in February 2024 we stumbled upon a LEGO Ideas project centered around ... 8.8 million pounds of thrust, 15 percent more than what the previous record holder, the Saturn V rocket of the ...

The desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days of the motor car, where inventors would compete against each other to see whose machine was the fastest. The race hit its ...

You get a sense of the sound from the video. You can read more about that project on the Thrust SSC website, which itself is a time capsule back to the early days of Internet 1.0. (“Best ...