ThrustSSC

The team that built ThrustSSC.

ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC, or Thrust supersonic car, is a car powered by a jet engine. It was made by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers and Jeremy Bliss of the United Kingdom.^[1]

Thrust SSC is the fastest land vehicle.^[2] When tested on 15 October 1997, the car traveled at 1227 kilometres per hour.^[2]

ThrustSSC Media

ThrustSSC on display in the Coventry Transport Museum's Landspeed Gallery
Side view of Thrust SSC showing its branding and marks at Coventry Transport Museum
One of the Rolls-Royce engines in the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum

References

↑ ThrustSSC team.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Land speed (fastest car). Guiness World Records (2016). Retrieved 24 February 2016.

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[1] ThrustSSC team.

[gui-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Land speed (fastest car). Guiness World Records (2016). Retrieved 24 February 2016.

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