Ayres has planned out a test program that should see the car reaching 800 to 850mph in 2015, and then coming back the following year to hit 1,000mph. As with Thrust SSC (or an experimental ...

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 desire to break the land speed record goes back to the earliest days ... The team had to go home and repair the car, and by the time they'd done it, Thrust SSC had already beaten them to ...

Literally; with the car itself being assembled in the ... the serving RAF pilot who drove Thrust SSC to the record back in ’97. But while Bloodhound’s prime mover is the same—a Rolls-Royce ...

The Thrust SSC Land Speed Racer races down the Nevada ... 1,000mph you need to then slow the car back down again. The car has three main braking systems. The first is a powerful airbrake that ...

the Thrust SSC which set a 763 mph record over the course of one mile back in 1997. Unlike the Thrust SSC, the new Bloodhound is propelled by a combination of a jet turbine engine, alongside a ...

The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record thanks to a couple of Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines. The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the ...

There is only one car in history that has ever broken the sound barrier, and it's called "Thrust SuperSonic Car," which achieved this feat back in October 1997 after reaching speeds of 763 miles ...

The Thrust SSC is not competing in races right now. However, the public can witness the record-breaking car in Coventry, England, at the Coventry Transport Museum, where it is on display.