The Thrust SSC used two Rolls-Royce Spey jet engines ... Unfortunately, during one high-speed run, the Spirit of America hit a rock, which got sucked into the engine and caused significant ...

Land speed record attempts are nearly as old ... requiring a new track for each run.) 1982 wasn't to be Thrust 2's year either, averaging 590mph and teaching Noble and his team a lot before ...

A follow-up to the Thrust 2, the jet-power car that broke the land speed record in 1983 ... requiring a ton of fuel for each record-breaking run. While building a behemoth like the SSC required ...

It’s a familiar story to Richard Noble the man who led Bloodhound until its first bankruptcy, and who set a Land Speed Record himself driving Thrust 2 in 1983 ... the first run in the ...

In short, there are two interesting things. This model says the thrust speed depends on the mass and ... I think you could technically run a turbofan on electricity (from a nuclear power plant ...

An entrepreneur is celebrating the anniversary of a land speed record he broke in Nevada 40 years ago. Richard Noble was behind the wheel of Thrust 2 as it averaged 633mph (1018.7km/h) in the ...