The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring of the Thrust SSC that set the world land speed record in 1997, RAF pilot Andy Green blasting across the desert at 793 miles per hour. Whereas Thrust SSC was ...

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 ...

Dubbed Thrust SuperSonic Car (or Thrust SSC, for short), the record-breaking vehicle was the brainchild of British entrepreneur and former world land speed record holder Richard Noble, who ...

The Thrust SSC project would simply never have even existed were it not for the dogged perseverance of Richard Noble and his team. Noble already held the previous land speed record behind the ...

Building a vehicle capable of going 1,000 miles per hour on land isn't something you do overnight. The folks behind the Bloodhound SSC project have been working toward reaching that insane speed ...

On this date in 1997, that barrier was broken by the Thrust SSC in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, a project overseen by Noble and driven by British pilot Andy Green, who hit 763 mph. You can't be ...

3. The Thrust SSC boasts a total thrust of 223 kN or roughly 50,000 pounds of force! 4. It accelerated at a rate of 25 miles per hour per second during its iconic ride with Green. 5.

Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic, there’s a new kid on the block – and it wants to claim its crown. The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed ...

It's been 12 years since RAF fighter pilot Andy Green OBE and Thrust SSC scythed through the sound barrier on their way to the current World Land Speed Record of 763.053mph. So Green and former ...

The Bloodhound SSC begins initial low-speed testing in the near future, with a full-speed run happening later this year. Jaguar will debut the new F-Type R AWD Bloodhound SSC RRV at the Coventry ...