Andy Green, the Royal Air Force pilot who drove Thrust SSC on its record run is scheduled to do the same in the Bloodhound. One challenger to Noble’s effort, the North American Eagle project ...

Dubbed Thrust SuperSonic Car (or Thrust SSC, for short), the record-breaking ... literally requiring a ton of fuel for each record-breaking run. While building a behemoth like the SSC required ...

It's been 20 years since the Thrust SSC made its record-breaking speed run, becoming the only car to ever travel faster than the speed of sound. Yet as its driver explains, it wasn't as simple as ...

Unsurprisingly, the car drank a huge amount of fuel, averaging around 0.4 mpg over the run, according to the Land Speed Record website. The Thrust SSC weighed about 10 tons, which presented the ...

The event comes on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the team's previous and still-standing world land speed record of 763.035 ... with the Thrust SSC, the only car ever to travel faster ...

The needle-nose car made two runs Newquay Airport in Cornwall, U.K., on Thursday with land speed record holder Andy ... when he hit 763.035 in the Thrust SSC. This time, he only reached 210 ...

but the original plan—as we reported here—was for the team to make a first attempt on the record later this year, trying to push it beyond the supersonic speed set by Thrust SSC in 1997.

And towards the end of the run, the team realized the car produced a massive sonic boom in the Nevada desert. It's the only car ever to do so. The Thrust SSC's record still stands today ...

Before each run, volunteers have to walk the entire ... He also thinks it's possible they won't be the first to beat Thrust SSC. Six other land speed record projects are underway, some more ...

But the current world record is held by a rather special machine, and it has remained intact for over two decades. The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record ...

By the way, the sonic boom produced by Thrust SSC’s record-setting land speed run did some damage. About 10 miles away in the Nevada town of Gerlach, sprinkler covers were knocked off by the ...

effort has been working on a rocket-powered car it hopes to use to smash the vehicular land speed record, currently held by the 763-mph Thrust SSC with a 1,000-plus mph run. We’ve followed the ...