While most of the retardation will be done by air brakes and parachutes, ... He reached 763.05 mph in October 1997, driving the Thrust SSC, but now Green has his eyes on the 1,000-mph mark.

This is the Bloodhound SSC. Or, ... Thrust comes from a Rolls-Royce EJ200 engine, ... The left pedal handles the brakes, which work only below 160 mph.

Measuring in at 13.5 meters (44 feet) in length and 7.5 tons in weight, the Bloodhound SSC is capable of producing 135,000bhp. This is all still theoretical at the moment, since the car hasn't ...

The Bloodhound SSC crew has two missions in mind with their upcoming land speed machine—break the standing land speed record of 763.035 miles per hour, then go onto beat that by eclipsing 1,000 ...

That puts Bloodhound SSC in expert hands, but, as Chapman points out, “It isn't just Andy and a throttle pedal.” The 135,000-horsepower Bloodhound has 18 tonnes of thrust.

It’s the 20th anniversary of the Thrust SSC’s run. Up next, the Bloodhound. By Sven Gustafson. Oct 19, 2017 1:00 PM EDT Start the Conversation .

In order to achieve this they have fitted their Bloodhound SSC with the engine from a Typhoon jet fighter, made allowances for volcanic temperatures within the car, engineered thrust of 135,000bhp ...

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 ...

On October 15, 1997, the Thrust SSC set a World Land Speed Record of 760.035 mph, and becoming the first and only car to break the sound barrier. That record may not stand for much longer, though.

The Bloodhound SSC is the offspring of the Thrust SSC that set the world land speed record in 1997, RAF pilot Andy Green blasting across the desert at 793 miles per hour. Whereas Thrust SSC was ...

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 ...

While most of the retardation will be done by air brakes and parachutes, ... He reached 763.05 mph in October 1997, driving the Thrust SSC, but now Green has his eyes on the 1,000-mph mark.