The record was set in a four-wheeled, jet-powered car called Spirit of America – Sonic 1, ... behind Thrust SSC in 1997, Thrust 2 in 1983 and Blue Flame in 1970. 7 Images. Previous Next.

The Thrust SSC, quite literally, inherited the DNA of breakneck airborne vehicles. At the heart of the car was Rolls Royce's Spey (R.B.163 Spey 505-5) engine, which has appeared inside a variety ...

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 ...

A team of pioneering Britons is on the hunt for brave drivers to take on the mammoth challenge of getting behind the wheel of the iconic jet powered, 1,000mph Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record car.

A follow-up to the Thrust 2, the jet-power car that broke the land speed record in 1983, the SSC looked more like a wingless jet fighter than a car. Yes, it had four wheels, but they were hidden ...

The Spirit of America's design was significantly different from the Thrust SSC, with traditional front-wheel steering and a single jet engine rather than dual units like the British car.

3 Oct 1997: Thrust SSC Car pilot Andy Green looks on during the Supersonic World Land Speed Record Challenge at Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nevada. Harry How /Allsport via Getty Images Green was ...

This Guinness-World Record Breaking Car is so fast that it needed a parachute to be slowed down! There is only one car in history that has ever broken the sound barrier, and it's called "Thrust ...

On this day 24 years ago, 15 October 1997, Green beat a land speed record he himself had set in Thrust of 714.144mph on September 25. The Thrust SSC looked like an upside-down fighter plane, and ...

They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1997, setting the current world land-speed record of 763 mph. Ayers ...

Thrust SSC set both subsonic and supersonic LSRs in Nevada in 1997, first reaching 714.144 mph and then 763.035, but Noble and Green were determined to do better.

The man was Andy Green, the year was 1997, and the car was the Thrust SSC. Powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines used in the F-4 Phantom which preceded the F-15, ...