When driver Andy Green fires the rocket, he tells Steve Cropley, the car will generate 25,000lb ft of thrust ...

The Land Speed Record was broken by Mr Noble aboard the powerful Thrust 2 machine 37 years ago after clocking speeds of more than 633mph. The record was beaten some 14 years later by Britain's ...

"The outright world land speed record is so iconic because it's the ... alongside its predecessor, the Thrust 2. A collaborative design effort courtesy of Richard Noble, Jeremy Bliss, Ron Ayres ...

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 ...

This was Noble's second land speed record; he was the current record holder at the time, having claimed it in 1982 with Thrust 2. Regular readers will know that Noble and Green are trying to smash ...

that momentous 1997 land speed record of 763mph is being marked once more. This video features interviews with Andy Green and Richard Noble about the development of Thrust SSC plus footage from ...

But it was involvement with Thrust 2 that pushed modest Mr Sprayson into the spotlight. He spent two months creating the frame for the jet-propelled vehicle which smashed the land speed record ...

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 ...

Noble already held the previous land speed record behind the wheel of Thrust 2, but he decided that simply being the fastest man on Earth wasn't enough. He was going to build a vehicle that would ...