It’s the 20th anniversary of the Thrust SSC’s run. Up next, the Bloodhound. Next week, the Bloodhound Project folks will stage an event on a 1.7-mile runway at Cornwall Airport Newquay in southwestern ...

On the morning of October 15, 1997, a dust trail streaked across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached ...

Tudor was lucky enough to be in Wales just as Sebastien Loeb was securing his 8th World Rally Championship title during Wales Rally GB 2011 and wrote a guest blog for ITV News covering the rally ...

The Bloodhound Project is on a mission to smash the current land-speed record – with a 13-metre-long car harnessing a jet engine. In engineering terms, it seems plausible: The current land-speed ...

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 per ...

Sometime in 2017, the Bloodhound SSC could become the fastest car in the world. The previous record was set in 1997 by the Thrust SSC, driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, after the car achieved a ...

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 record with ...

Human beings achieved many ‘firsts’ in the 20th century. We climbed the planet’s highest mountains, dived its deepest undersea trench, flew over it faster than the speed of sound, and even escaped it ...

30 May 2023, 19:37 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Though it looks like a wingless plane, the Thrust SSC is a record-braking car, albeit one that managed to break the sound barrier 26 years ago ...

When Andy Green puts his foot on the accelerator and tries to break the land speed record in 2011, he can be sure that some of the UK's top scientists have done everything possible to make sure he ...