ThrustSSC

The jet was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in the US state of Nevada. It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in the British version of the F-4 Phantom II jet fighter. The twin engines developed a net thrust of 223 kN (50,000 lbf) at the measured record speed of 341 metres per second,{{citation|url=http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000512021948/http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents-story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 May 2000|title=The ThrustSSC Story}} burning around 18 litres/second (4.0 Imperial gallons/s or 4.8 US gallons/s) of fuel. This was about {{convert|4850|L/100 km|2|abbr=on}}.

After the record was set, the World Motor Sport Council released the following message:

:The World Motor Sport Council homologated the new world land speed records set by the team ThrustSSC of Richard Noble, driver Andy Green, on 15 October 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada (USA). This is the first time in history that a land vehicle has exceeded the speed of sound. The new records are as follows:

:*Flying mile     {{convert|1227.985|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}

:*Flying kilometre {{convert|1223.657|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}

:In setting the record, the sound barrier was broken in both the north and south runs.

::::Paris, 11 November 1997.

The complete run history is available.{{citation |title=Thrust SSC Run database |url=http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Status-19971015.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205002454/http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Status-19971015.html |archive-date=5 Feb 2013 |url-status=live}}{{self-published source|date=October 2022}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}{{self-published source|date=October 2022}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022}}

In 1983 Richard Noble had broken the world land speed record with his earlier car Thrust2, which reached a speed of {{convert|1,019|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}. The date of Andy Green's record came exactly a half century and one day after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere, with the Bell X-1

research rocket plane on 14 October 1947.{{cite web|last=Gill|first=Kathy|title=First supersonic flight in rocket-powered research plane|url=https://wiredpen.com/2022/10/14/first-supersonic-flight-in-rocket-powered-research-plane/|website=WiredPen|access-date=15 October 2022}}

Both Thrust SSC and Thrust2 are displayed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, England. Visitors can ride a 4D motion simulator depicting a computer-generated animation of the record-breaking run from the perspective of Green.[https://www.transport-museum.com/visiting/biffa_award_land_speed_record_exhibition.aspx Coventry Transport Museum – Landspeed Gallery]

Several teams are competing to break the record, including the Bloodhound LSR project, launched in 2008,[http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/news/noble-green-and-team-target-1000mph-record Noble, Green and Team Target 1,000mph Record]. Bloodhound Ssc (23 October 2008). and previously the North American Eagle Project, from 2004 until the project's abandonment after a fatal crash in 2019.{{cite web|last1=Nash|first1=Jim|title=Rocket Man: Land-Speed Racer Pushes 1,000 MpH Barrier|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/1000-mph-car-land-speed-record/|website=Scientific American|access-date=9 March 2016}}

In June 2012, a television advertisement for the Orange San Diego mobile phone, containing an Intel processor, was broadcast on British television and featured a fast car in computer generated imagery. Richard Noble claimed that the car was a representation of Thrust SSC and thus these companies had used his intellectual property without permission, putting the future of the Bloodhound LSR project in doubt. The Advertising Standards Authority rejected the Bloodhound team's complaint, claiming that intellectual property disputes were not in its remit. According to BBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, Intel and Orange responded that their production team had researched different styles of "superfast vehicles" and developed their own Orange-branded land speed car, and that the advertisement and phone were not connected to Noble or Bloodhound LSR.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18607081 BBC News – Orange, Intel, and a fast car furore]. BBC. (27 June 2012).

• Air speed record
• Budweiser Rocket
• List of vehicle speed records
• RAF High Speed Flight
• Rocket car
• Bloodhound LSR

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• Richard Noble: Thrust: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Quest for Speed, Hardcover: Partridge, 1998, {{ISBN|1-85225-268-5}}; Paperback: Bantam, 1999, {{ISBN|0-553-81208-4}}

• {{commons category-inline|ThrustSSC}}
• [http://www.thrustssc.com/ Official Thrust SSC website] (no longer being updated)
• [http://www.richard-noble.com/ Richard Noble]
• [http://www.transport-museum.com Coventry Transport Museum] where Thrust SSC is on display
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526082118/http://freespace.virgin.net/john.coppinger/thrustss.htm Photo-Diary] by John Coppinger – including the aerial photo by Richard Meredith-Hardy showing the shock wave as Thrust SSC narrowly exceeds the speed of sound
• [http://www.boris-lux.de/04_types/31_re/97_tss/ts9701.php Thrust SSC] the car and the run
• [http://www.andrewgraves.biz/ssc_stuff/SSC_pics.htm Thrust SSC Photos] Pictures from Blackrock, Nevada – 15 October 1997
• [http://speedrecordclub.com/ Speed Record Club] – The Speed Record Club seeks to promote an informed and educated enthusiast identity, reporting accurately and impartially to the best of its ability on record-breaking engineering, events, attempts and history.

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{{Succession box|title=FIA Outright World Land Speed Record holder (1 km) |before=ThrustSSC
{{nobold|{{small|713.990 MPH, 1,149.055 Km/h
set by Andy Green, on 25 September 1997.}}}}|after=Incumbent|years=760.343 MPH,
1,223.657 Km/h
set by Andy Green, on 15 October 1997.}}

{{Succession box|title=FIA Outright World Land Speed Record holder (1 mile) |before=ThrustSSC
{{nobold|{{small|714.144 MPH, 1,149.303 Km/h
set by Andy Green, on 25 September 1997.}}}}|after=Incumbent|years=763.035 MPH,
1,227.985 Km/h
set by Andy Green, on 15 October 1997.}}

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