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 ...

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 ...

is designed for high-speed UAVs with up to 200-lb (90-kg) gross vehicle weights. It weighs 18 lb (8.2 kg) and measures 5.5 x 12.5 x 64 inches (14 x 32 x 163 cm). It can run on a number of fuels ...

The advantage to pilots is superior low-speed and high ... The nozzle is said to be “two dimensional” when the shape of the throat is rectangular. Flight tests of thrust-vectoring designs ...

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 ...

The Su-27LL-PS was an experimental variant of the Su-27 fighter aircraft designed to test advanced thrust vectoring technologies. It featured a two-dimensional ... speed and range, and was ...