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 ...

Even though they still own the land speed record, which the Thrust SSC ... and Green have taken their lessons from Thrust 2, and Thrust SSC to grow the Bloodhound SSC into a truly mammoth ...

In the process it got upgraded from a mere 12,500lbs of thrust up to ... the beast after each run. (In order to set a land speed record, one needs to complete two timed runs: one in each direction ...