With so much focus on Bloodhound SSC and attempting to break 1,000mph it was inevitable that the old record would fall by the wayside ever so slightly. So as part of Guinness World Records 60th ...
THRUST SSC's recordbreaking run played on two large video screens as the world's fastest car was unveiled in its new Coventry home yesterday. At 10.15am the Mach 1 Show - devoted entirely to the ...
We live in the long tail of land-speed records. For most of the past century, the title of fastest human on wheels traded hands every couple of years — until the speeds began to rise to the point ...
CROWDS lined the streets of the city centre todays as the fastest car on earth made a much slower journey to its new home. Thrust SSC, which clinched the land speed record in 1997 by travelling at 763 ...
Twelve years since Andy Green OBE and Thrust SSC scythed through the sound barrier on their way to the current world land speed record of 763.053 mph, Green and former record-holder, Richard Noble OBE ...
Thrust SSC was born. Ayers’s subsequent “retirement” projects included designing the Farnborough F1 aircraft and the JCB Dieselmax that took the land-speed diesel vehicle record from 200 mph to 350 ...
A British team is developing a car that will be capable of reaching 1,000mph (1,610km/h). Powered by a rocket bolted to a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine, the vehicle will mount an assault on the world ...