"A car with a fighter jet for an engine." "Ah. Er... see the game on Saturday?" Green holds the current record, hitting 763mph (1,228km/h) in the Thrust SSC in 1997. The Bloodhound is expected to ...

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 ...

Together with a long, pointed nose and a T-shaped tail fin and stabilizer, Thrust SSC looked much more like a jet fighter with no wings than a car. Fittingly, the car got a driver to suit its looks.

That privilege belongs to former fighter jet pilot Royal Air Force (RAF) Wing Commander Andy Green. As the driver of Thrust SSC – the fastest car on the planet – he broke the sound barrier in ...

The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring of the Thrust SSC ... And what a vehicle it is, called a mix between a “fast fighter jet, a Formula One car, a spaceship and a boat” by one of its engineers.

with the Thrust SSC, the only car ever to travel faster than the speed of sound. And oh, hey — Bloodhound even released a new video commemorating that incredible feat. Video footage of the ...

Getting a jet-powered car to travel safely at that ... and the director behind Thrust SSC, the car that currently holds the land-speed record of 763mph. Bloodhound SSC uses a EJ200 Rolls-Royce ...

by another British jet car called Thrust SSC 22 years ago. "Thrust SSC was an incredible vehicle, and it achieved a remarkable thing of being the first car to go faster than the speed of sound ...

“No jet airplane has demonstrated sustained ... They were part of the team that worked on the Thrust SSC (supersonic car), which blazed across Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in 1997, setting ...

The Thrust SSC car that set the world speed record at the ... The unit is a Rolls Royce EJ200 jet engine, the same used on Europe’s favorite fighter jet, the Eurofighter Typhoon.