Bloodhound SSC jet car to hit 1,000mph: Not so hot on corners ... Together the engines will provide 212kN (47,500lb) of thrust. According to the BBC, that's 180 Formula One cars.

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 ...

Ayers would learn much on Thrust SSC—and another land speed car, 2006's diesel-powered JCB Dieselmax—that would inform his design for Bloodhound SSC. At first though, he was reluctant to get ...

In 1997, Andy Green broke the world land speed record when he drove the Thrust SSC 763mph. Can he break 1,000mph?

Jet-Powered Car Roars Past 500 Mph. ... That record was set by former Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green in the jet-powered Thrust SSC, in Nevada in 1997; Green is now behind the wheel of Bloodhound.

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 ...

Bloodhound SSC, a British team that’s planning on using a jet engine strapped to wheels to travel at 1,000mph, just hit an important milestone. The … ...

The highest speed ever achieved by a car on land, the Thrust SSC, is 763.035 mph (1,227.9 kph), ... a 6.4-ton car powered by a fighter jet engine will begin testing in one of South Africa’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1997, Andy Green broke the world land speed record when he drove the Thrust SSC 763mph. Can he break 1,000mph?

In 1997, Andy Green broke the world land speed record when he drove the Thrust SSC 763mph. Can he break 1,000mph?