Thrust SSC's groundbreaking design was not the product ... To fit in the car's narrow tail, the rear wheels were positioned as close together as possible, with one slightly behind the other.

"From the nose to the tail, anything that has any kind of aerodynamic influence we are modelling," says researcher Dr. Ben Evans – who as a school boy watched the Thrust SSC record on TV.

The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with an attempt to reach 800 mph in October 2017. New funding means the Bloodhound project – which was shown in London ...

In order to keep the car on the straight and narrow, the team has fitted a giant plane-like tail wing. In a previous run in the Thrust SSC days, Andy Green's car jumped 50 meters to the right at ...

The "car" in question is the Thrust SSC, and it managed to achieve that record thanks to a couple of Rolls-Royce Spey 202 jet engines. The top speed achieved by the SSC Thrust, as recorded by the ...

Twenty-six years ago, in the spring of 1997, this outrageous rocket on wheels broke the sound barrier and became the fastest land vehicle ever built. The automobile was created to revolutionize ...

While its predecessor, Thrust SSC, hit just 763mph the team behind Bloodhound ... and you can think of Bloodhound’s huge tail fin performing much the same task. “If it were small, the car ...

The current record stands at 763mph (set by Green in 1997 in Thrust SSC) and the Bloodhound SSC team are confident they can go 33 percent faster, or to put it another way: over 1,000mph.

You get a sense of the sound from the video. You can read more about that project on the Thrust SSC website, which itself is a time capsule back to the early days of Internet 1.0. (“Best ...

Ron Ayers, the man behind the world's fastest car, the Thrust SSC, passed away at the age of 92. His vehicle was designed to hit supersonic speeds and break records, and it did just that in 1997.

Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic ... stretching 13.5 meters long (44 feet), with a two-meter high tail fin perched at the end for stability as it hurtles forward at high speeds.