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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exactly 25 years ago today, on October 4, 1983, a British-built, turbojet-powered car named Thrust 2 set a new land speed record of 633mph on the perfectly level sands of the Black Rock Desert in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Noble is cut from the same cloth as the original pioneers of speed. Thrust 2 was built on a shoestring ... The FIA refused to ratify the record on the grounds that the wheels weren ...

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 ...

As a jewel in the crown of the museum's ongoing £9m refurbishment, former and current Land Speed Record holders Thrust 2 and Thrust SSC have been recommend in a dedicated exhibition, just feet apart.

These included Thrust SSC, the vehicle which, driven by Squadron Leader Andy Green on October 15 1997, achieved a speed of 763 mph, setting the current land-speed-record and becoming the first ...