An Air India flight AI-171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad airport. The flight was headed ...

In the early days, water speed records were held by steam-driven craft with conventional, full-displacement hulls, such as Nathanael Herreshoff’s Stiletto, which set a 26.2mph record in 1885.

The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, was 763.035 miles per hour, or 1,227.985 kilometers ...

Unlike previous record-breaking vehicles, the Thrust SSC was powered by two jet engines. Both gargantuan units were Rolls-Royce Spey turbofans, which originally powered the British version of the ...

The vehicle is on permanent display in the museum's Land Speed Gallery alongside Thrust SSC which, with the support of Mr Noble, Andy Green piloted to a supersonic 763mph (1227.9km/h) in 1997 ...

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 ...

The Thrust SSC project would simply never have even existed were it not for the dogged perseverance of Richard Noble and his team. Noble already held the previous land speed record behind the ...

The team behind the land-speed record – considered one of the greatest feats of engineering of the last century – have been in Coventry to look ahead to a major anniversary for the project. Thrust SSC ...

3 Oct 1997: Thrust SSC Car pilot Andy Green looks on during the Supersonic World Land Speed Record Challenge at Black Rock Desert in Gerlach, Nevada. Harry How /Allsport via Getty Images Green was ...

British fighter pilot Green broke the sound barrier in setting the existing record of 763.035 mph (1,227.986kph) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, in the jet-propelled Thrust SSC on Oct. 15, 1997.

If Batman existed in real life, we think he’d own something like the Thrust SSC or Super Sonic Car. In case you don’t remember, the car that looks like some sort of mutant airplane set the land speed ...