At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached 804kph. Days earlier, after nearly a month in the high desert, Thrust-- SSC stands for ...

Thrust SSC's groundbreaking design was not the product ... The exceptional speed of the car meant that driver Andy Green reported having to turn the wheel up to 40 degrees at high speed just ...

"It's the loudest, highest-pitched scream I've ever heard," said British Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Green of approaching the sound barrier, who drove the Thrust SSC to set its world record.

Dubbed Thrust SuperSonic Car (or Thrust SSC, for short), the record-breaking ... duties to Royal Air Force (RAF) Wing Commander Andy Green. The pilot was used to breaking the sound barrier ...

Thrust SSC would use a pair of Rolls Royce Spey engines ... The successful candidate was one of the latter, RAF Wing Commander Andy Green. Green had plenty of supersonic experience in RAF Phantoms ...

And as Thrust SSC pilot Andy Green points out, the sonic boom was so loud, the nearby town of Gerlach, Nevada (population 206) though it was experiencing an earthquake. Much of the same team that ...

The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car’s driver, Andy Green, set the current World Land Speed Record of 763mph (1,228kph) in Thrust SSC on the Black Rock Desert in 1997. Andy’s lecture at the 2014 IET ...

The vehicle's driver will be wing commander Andy Green, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, who set the current speed record of 763 mph with Thrust SSC in October 1997. The three-year mission will be ...

Fifty years and one day later (and only about 500 miles due north), another fighter pilot—RAF Wing Commander Andy Green—equaled Yeager's feat but on four wheels. Thrust SSC was the name of ...

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

Back in 1997, a group of enterprising British engineers established the current record at 763mph with the jet-powered Thrust SSC, driven by Andy Green. The core of that same team is now back with ...

was set by RAF Wing Commander Andy Green in Thrust SSC in 1997. He will be behind the controls of the Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) when it attempts to break the record at the end of this year ...