Even though they still own the land speed record, which the Thrust SSC set on October 15, 1997 at 763 mph, Richard Noble, and Andy Green have returned to the quest for the world's fastest land ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

British pilot Andy Green routinely cracks supersonic speeds ... land speed record of 763 mph in a jet-powered car called Thrust SSC, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 1997.

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 land speed record has stood at around 763 miles per hour since it was set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC back in 1997. The former air force pilot turned jet car driver was set to break his own ...

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.