Thrustssc goes supersonic

[paulmakepeace]

You ever take it off any sweet jumps?

[MegaFlapjack10]

Whered all the noise

[JohnyAngelo]

It is not Andy Green but Darth Vader.

[scottwwallace]

He wants to get the wheels properly aligned on that car. The pull to the right at speed is terrible.

[bmwgtrm3]

i thought it was a ground vehicle not a plane !

[gamblemadman]

@bmwgtrm3 Then you thought right.

Good for you.

[bmwgtrm3]

@gamblemadman just finger your self

[gamblemadman]

@bmwgtrm3 Sure ... right after you suck your own cock.

Let me know when you've finished.

[doggy600k5]

"700 and just in control on the wrong line " he sounds so cool, like it's a sunday afternoon drive! . Cool Britania .

[solidus927]

Holy shit! That would make an awesome RIDE!!

[DSMTurbo4g63]

Whats the whining noise as he reaches 550mph?

[Camerameister]

@DSMTurbo4g63 Probably wind noise.

[barthoedemaker]

'' 450...JESUS '' :D

[peterbiltroy]

This guy was just way too calm! I'd have lost it when he was cranking that wheel! And in this video they went 38 miles...damn what a rush!

[CS79N]

How British. It took me a while to realise he'd actually started moving.

[FormulaOneFan4Eva]

Some say that he pisses pure bravery and that his balls can fill a 44-gallon drum, all we know is, he's called Andy Green...

[Chevypower265]

@FormulaOneFan4Eva Andy Green is the Stig!

[Tigerrun]

It's people like this that should be knighted instead of footballers and soap stars!

[cowfaceist]

@Tigerrun yep

[dazza027]

I cant believe how calm he was during that entire run. For all we knew he was moving the car onto the lawn to give it a wash...

[Cabinessance]

I had not seen this view before. That looks like full lock at 700 plus MPH!!

Heroic stuff indeed.

[basimpsn]

450 JESUS @ 1:15 you could hear is fear. Good job

[delta426e]

Scale models were tested in a wind tunnel. To my knowledge there aren't any supersonic wind tunnels large enough to test the real vehicle.

[AUPilot3]

@delta426e The world's largest SS wind tunnel sits just south of Nashville, TN at AEDC (it was the largest as of a few years ago, I am assuming it still is). It is not large enough for a full scale model. It could probably hold a half-size or 2/3 size model though....I have stood inside the tunnel.

[essuu]

@delta426e as far as I know there was no wind tunnel tests for Thrust SSC at any scale because they couldn't replicate the ground effect. There's no wind tunnel in the world that can simulate the ground moving under the vehicle at those speeds. It was all done with CFD although they did do a rocket sled test with a scale model.

[delta426e]

The car wasn't perfectly symmetric on the left and right, so it experienced more drag on one side than the other. The steering is countering the yaw moment from asymmetric drag.

[AUPilot3]

@delta426e I assure you that it was perfectly symetrical on both sides. The right turning inputs are more likely a result from the torque and possibly the gyroscopic forces coming from the engines.

[magnusw24]

@AUPilot3 ..."And the car may be fractionally different in shape from one side to the other. It's a hand-built car. We measured it as accurately as we could, but the tiniest difference, the thickness of a few coats of paint, can make the shock waves form earlier on one side. It happens with aircraft when you take them supersonic, but tiny corrections with the controls can fix that." Andy Green's own words.

[Camerameister]

@AUPilot3 At 700mph it will nearly all be aerodynamic

[essuu]

@AUPilot3 Actually it's not perfectly symetrical. The two rear wheels are offset fore and aft and we now know that it was the pressure waves building up around them that caused the yaw at ~600mph. They didn't have the money to do the CFD on the whole vehicle so they did each half separately. Nobody noticed the issue until they redid it as part of the Bloodhound SSC project.

[schpongled]

Holy crap, Andy Green has some big brass bollocks!! Not many people would be up to the challenge of piloting that thing.

[hunterhalo2]

Does this car have aerodynamic control surfaces? or it is strictly rear wheel control?

[antiscreen]

GREAT BRITAIN does it best baby

[3004z]

Those deer keep getting in the way.

[tranjohn]

How come he's turning the steering wheel and not holding it str8???

[fizzguts]

@tranjohn He's turning the steering wheel to steer the thrust SSC straight. The Steering wheel is geared down so a full turn only moves the rolling wheels a few degrees.

And if you'd bothered look at the comments you'd seen this answered about 20 times already

[mclovin12q]

sounds like a british darth vador is flying

[MattGues]

Wow. I caught my breath catching even as his raced.

That guy has iron, like the Britons of old. If only we had evidence that there were still many men like that in the land where England used to be.

[TheLondonPhoto]

.....ummmm the Swerving may have been something to do with the fact that he was going over 700mph, what do you think, perhaps.....??! He was driving this car not the other way round, super talented, super quick and super brave Andy Green :)

[9notes22frets]

"730....gonna be a goodie...."

Big, huge, all-brass balls. Absolutely amazing! Up the Irons!

[592220]

Looks to me like the car was driving him more than the other way around. Still...

[KingFluffyKnife]

wow! awesome

[man710r]

That guy is ice cool. Who knows what caused the swerving - IIRC the rear wheels are offset and not directly next to one another to keep the body narrow - could maybe have something to do with it. Can't wait to see Bloodhounds SSC - awesome.

[deuterio125]

que dificil debe ser para controlar este aparato.

[captainkwstas]

no his says "600". oh my god very fast really very fast

[gp75motorsports]

LOL! He says 450-Jesus Christ.

[zorbazig]

@gp75motorsports Yeah he said that because his vehicule was drifting on the left, watch the onboard tail view on others YouTube vids... First time I saw this one... Incredible to see the strength necessary to keep this rocket on the right track...

[MIXOLYDIAN123]

Also, the G forces, pressures are just unpredictable - it could have been a crosswind (breeze), air temperature, a stone, harder or softer patch of ground, a twitch in his hand, a momentary differential in thrust between the two engines, the tiniest deviation in any one or more of these things could cause collossal repercussions. There's only so much science can tell us sometimes...that's why they're so brave - they go beyond current knowledge into the unknown without a safety net.

[07SuperchargedSS]

he sounds out of breath.. wonder how many Gs he pulled. or if he was just shittin his pants. or both.

[MIXOLYDIAN123]

and they did this with naff-all funding BTW. If you read Richard Noble's book about the project you'll feel embarrased about british industry...Seriously, Noble asked peanut sponsorship from major £billion/global companies and british companies and they shafted him royaly. I hope Bloodhound gets a better response.

[001whitelighter]

why it keep turning steering wheel if your going in straight line at 750 mph ?

[MIXOLYDIAN123]

@001whitelighter firstly, the forces exerted on the steel wheels by the weight of the car on an unstable surface. Secondly, as you try to go faster mother nature tries harder to slow you down so the thrust you need increases exponentially. Thus the forces exerted down on the wheels and pushing into the ground increase in a similar fashion. Imagine now balancing on one leg, then imagine balancing on one leg with a heavy blok on your back - the smallest

[onphyer]

excellent explanation.

[mugsytop]

@MIXOLYDIAN123 But that doe's not explain why he fought the car to the left until he hit 450 to 500, then the car pulled to the right pretty fast, It looked like he nearly ran out of steering near the sound barrier, he travelled in an s shape down the full run. Would that be caused by the down force or just bad aerodynamics, or even the down force simply bending the car? He went left for the first half of the run and right for the second.

[MIXOLYDIAN123]

movement or change in balance is magnified many times over. Andy was fighting to stay in a straight line because he had 20 tons of pressure pushing him into the ground making every twitch of the steering wheel more critical as the speed increased. Hope that explains it?

[trexilll]

Only a fucking RAF pilot could remain so fucking chill, cracking jokes at 700mph fighting the wheel for his life.

Legend in my book. Fuckin glad we're allies o.o

[rotterdam1953]

@trexilll , Indeed. I had the pleasure meeting Andy Green on several occasions and the guy is super-dooper chilled and the ONLY one who could have pulled this off.

[digireedoo]

Yeah he is ice cool. I took a squadron of air cadets to meet him and to look at the car, he explained jet engine theory to them in 30 seconds in a way that meant they all passed their propulsion exams - the syllabus gave us about 3 hours tuition to do the same! Top guy.

[tenminutesgone]

"...letting the car roll..sod the chute "

This was an awesome performance. Can't wait for Bloodhound with the 1000mph attempt in a couple of years. What's another 250mph...

Much was learnt from Thrust and previous challenges have been addressed. For example, the Bloodhound body will have a special aerodynamic, bisected sump incorporated below the seating area, to comfortably house Andy Green's massive balls

[747sim2]

@tenminutesgone yeah the bloodhound will need just over 4/3 the power to get to 1000 assuming the aerodynamics are similar

[mattifer10]

"I'd say that was fast...slowing down now, 600"

[nastyevilninja]

"Seven hundred - just about in control on the wrong line... don't worry about it."

Feck me that guy's a legend!

[cydonianman]

1:49 ding ~*

mach 1

[sts98sts98]

すごい

[dyneXeye]

imagine if there was a jump at the end. Then it would truly be a jet.

[radioactvchpmnk9]

i t probably wouldn't ramp of it, the car would just slam into the ramp and disintegrate.

[MegaLibra1979]

more like a rocket or a missle

[cb8673]

I'd imagine you aren't steering at that speed as much as keeping it from turning anymore than is safe. That's amazingly talented.

[Petsku333]

But in the SSC 45 degrees of steering wheel turning is like 1 degree on the front wheel. It's actually really easy to keep straight.

[cb8673]

That'd certainly help. Makes the man no less talented, of course.

[brayash]

Are you serious? "easy to keep it straight"? AG has written accounts of how it was to drive, and it was certainly anything but easy. There's a reason they chose a fighter pilot to drive it and not a racing driver...

To conclude: can you even begin to imagine the forces at work when travelling supersonic? Turning 1 degree or not, 1 degree at Mach 1 is rather a lot...

[radioactvchpmnk9]

i do have to agree, the sheer speed, 1 degree adds up. As well as the g forces slamming him into the seat. He went from 200 to 500 in a mater of seconds.

[fizzguts]

"It's actually really easy to keep straight."

JESUS Cretins on the left, Morons on the right and THIS COMPLETE TIT dead ahead

[wirelessoptical]

LMAO ... people actually argue that the SSC wasn't driven by a person?? Probably some moon-conspiracy nuts!

[phreak7521]

BALLS my friends....balls of steel

[DoomsDaySlip]

2.26, he gets so annoyed by the annunciator warning beep he resets the whole panel

[Funkaboy129]

What a brave man, You can hear him saying ''350.. Sweet jesus, Keep your foot down.''

[andrewmsj]

realli look like a plane cockpit!

[Title27GT]

how the hell do you manually control a supersonic aircraft without autopilot? WTF!? PILOT OF THE CENTURY!

[SmartWombat]

You use a Royal Air Force pilot.

Take a supersonic aircraft and pull its wings off.

That's basically what Thrust SSC was.

Apologies to all the engineers and designers !

[gnpotter]

"I'd say that was fast". Andy Green wins the understatement of forever award.

[multiz007]

She's breakign up she's breaking....Steve Austin, astronaught, a man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man. Bettter than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.. dah dah dah dah..... dah dah dah dah dah dah.....

:)

[LITTILDUFFLEBAGBOY]

imagine seing that at your school like come on honey

[gmarte12]

where is the fire missile button?

and the cup holder?

[mww88]

talk about a grocerie getter. this beats the family sedan any day!!!!!

[davifernandeslima01]

huahuahuah

[jud08uk]

Balls of fucking "STEEL"

[ekimelyobo]

whats all the big deal about ??... its just like my focus

[eastcowestrev]

you'd have thought somebody would have put the steering wheel on straight, whats he doing going round corners all the time...

[kinkaid25]

he's turning the steering wheel try and keep within the white line.

[1988gman]

Gotta hand it to Andy Green; nerves of steel! I mean he's on full lock at 700mph!!

[dannnn94]

Imagine if he goes off a jump ... "And we have lift off!"

[jonnybyford]

Let the car roll - sod the chute!!!!

[HarvsPenzance]

"i'd say that was fast"

Lol really???  Balls of steel, that man

[mazdaspeedproduction]

he sounds so scared!! i mean who wouldnt be!!

[LordLayAlotTK]

nah not fear, he's fighting the G-Forces which makes it hard to talk.

[11thhourreprieve]

I don't know, I'd say he'd be pretty adrenaline fuelled by such a drive. He's not finding it hard to talk, he's kinda hyper inside and ontop of that e has to controll himself, his car, read his instruments and give feed back to crew.

[eaxebxecxedx]

A car that needs pilot's license LOL

[ChrisVaIdez]

what is a sound barrier? how do you break through it? anyone?

[veteran011]

it is the speed at which sound travels in air. when things get going around this speed (730 is mph - forgot the exact #) there is a pressure wave that gets built up in front of the vehicle. if it was a plane the pressure wave would distort the airflow over the wings and a crash could result. hence the sound barrier.

In a plane you break through it by having swept wings to better manage the air that crosses them.

[problemloadingpage]

i believe the exact number is 728 mph.

[yachtymadness]

And to complete veteran011's answer, as you go up in altitude the air becomes less dense, the speed of sound is progressively less with altitude because sound travels more easily when travelling through mediums of higher densities I think at ground level it is approx 340 metres / second (about 1100 feet / second) or 760 miles an hour. At 10,000 feet it is somewhere around 730 miles an hour. At 50,000 approx 660 miles an hour and so on. Hope this helps.

[linkinparkfan107]

in simpler terms, air cannot travel out of the way fast enough, and when it gets enough pressure it presents a boom.

[ChrisVaIdez]

thanks! that helped.

[OffsAndSoddit]

the pilot for the bloodhound ssc is going to need considerably larger balls. I bet they've had to design a seat with divest to fit his gigantic balls

[blablubb12345]

It's the same driver - Andy Green. On a scale from 1 (easy to drive) to 10 (unable to control), according to Andy, ThrustSSC was a good 9.

BloodhoundSSC won't be more difficult to drive.

[DavidWalker12]

The driver of both vehicles is Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Green.

[billyposter]

Rear wheel steering- the guy has big cahoonas

[blablubb12345]

After the record, the team said that rear wheel steering should be limited to forkies in future ;-)

[l0u15by1n]

all credit he has got some nuts haha

[bmac2188]

350...450... right after he said 450, he said jesus lol

[JaSeY963]

Brilliant & Intense!! My goodness, the video really understates just how fast Andy travelled in the vehicle during that run. He went through the sound barrier during this run i remember this from the BBC documentary, and you hear the Supersonic BOOM! as he went thru the barrier. Beautiful! =)

[SpeedMetal13]

that was INTENSE!!!!!!! He must've broke throught the sound barrier when he had the yoke at full right and everything was shaking. Man my heart was doing blast beats!! Amazing vid. Thank you!

[gegogeandyodaspeed5]

can u imagine the amount of g forces? i would of ko already!

[langa99]

there is no rocket on thrustssc

[ssssroryssss2]

Well R2D2 with all that yelping sounds like he is very happy :D

[nukedude]

Mach 1 plus on the ground. The guy gets my respect. Dangerous in the air but much worse on the ground!

[apacheandy]

well it is still being designed :)

[bigtank2185]

MAN he is really fighting that thing!

[colob15]

iv had the pleasure of being in his company,he really is that cool.

[eljaco88]

really? i met him at the NEC and hes so nice! very polite and interesting

[L0000000000000L]

a lot of idiot lights at this speed..scary!

[aussifrog]

Wow, how could you ever be scared again after doing that!! Incredible.

[101supersonic]

Was that badass or what, and when he hit around 700 miles an hour he had the steering wheel cranked all the way to one side!!

[eric948470]

Wow, there seems to be a lot of steering going on. I thought since it's going on a straight line all you had to do is just hold the steering in one place and press the accelerator down. It seems to be harder than I thought.

[593OLYMPUS]

Hi Eric. Andy the driver said on a scale of 1 to 10 ( 10 been totally un-driveable ) Thrust SSC was a good 9!

Remember the car is 12 feet wide,so watch the white line at 700mph, he never went more than 50feet to one side, and mostly kept it within the car's own width. Extremely hard work,even for a skilled RAF fighter pilot.

Full lock on Thrust SSC isn't like that on a road car, as it's not meant to go round in circles. "Intense" is my best description of the work needed in that record run.

[stevehall99]

How anyone rates this sub 5 stars is beyond me. The magnitiude of the achievement is just off the scale, imagine losing a car @ 100mph then multiply x7.... amazing skills and copybook fighter pilot calm in the middle of a very exciting project :)

[geralddavison]

1:20 "450 (MPH) JESUS - keep your foot down" Thats a man working darn hard! Hats off Andy Green, rooting for you at 1K (MPH) in a couple of years!

[DDBmaster]

400mph... 400mph... 400mph..

I cant stand this... My grandma goes faster with her feet ... OMG ... (of course i am kiding)

[panictactics]

What?... Shut up.

[skater15153]

i like how he starts relaxing when its still going like 400 mph...he's like ah ya now i'll be fine...no big deal. Only 400 mph haha...freaking badass

[nuke583]

is it me, or does he talk REALLY fast?

[sanfranciscobay]

Does he control the throttle by using a foot pedal?

Is there a clearer version of this video>

[VoodooGypsy]

It would have to be by foot pedal, he never releases his hand to move any other throttle.

[593OLYMPUS]

2 foot pedals, 1 for each engine, but pinned together during normal running with a locking pin.

[593OLYMPUS]

Absolutely Stunning. Made me so proud back in 1997 when us Brits showed everyone,from Nasa experts downwards, just who is top dog in the land speed world. They all said it couldn't be done at any price.

Andy is the perfect driver,ice cool,focussed,and so polite and easy to speak to if you ever get the chance. A true English gentleman. I agree with apacheandy - makes me proud to be a British engineer also.

1000mph next maybe, but Mach1 on land will always be special.

[clubsport911]

I'm organising for my company to help Bloodhound SSC to hit the 1k mph target. We supplied critical parts for Thrust SSC - so here goes !

Let's see if we can do it again !

[Smeg69]

I cannot beleive how much he is fighting that thing, much respect to Andy Green a modern day hero

[apacheandy]

Makes me proud to be a British Engineer. And we will have the 1000mph record in 2011 too :)

[alexander1485]

at least it wasn't done in the UK ;)

[zebbox]

wing commander andy green is a legend - next stop - 1K.

[baconsandwich2007]

Couldn't do this in the UK. Some doddery old git in a Nissan Micra would pull out in front of him!!!

[KRi5C4LDiC0TT]

haah

[napone0]

I bet he had an orgasm. I know I would've.

[yerty2000]

Balls of British steel. Calm, cool collected despite where he was, what he was doing and how fast he was going. Had it been an american you wouldn't have heard the warnings over screaming and whooping.

[oleglysenko]

haha what does the "starwars" sound mean? hmm xD

[Skiiwa]

I so Love this Vid!

[harrynog]

look upon the face trying to control the steering wheel of the car, very crazy ...... hahahahaha

[luchetto1986]

any vibration??? it's a fake........

[mikeoneuk]

look in the record books you tit ...... fake lol

[lucaabby]

dude...everyone knows about that record...but that's not the corresponding video..

[wingman7700]

Considering the speed of the movement outside the window at the edges of the screen I'd say its real...it was done on a dry lake bed...DEAD SMOOTH...so it may be the real deal, or it may not. My guess is it is.

[Brian86992DH]

thats alot of effort to make a fake

[PrivateCustard]

What the hell are you smoking??

This is real.....as real as your obvious stupidity!

[Brian86992DH]

you sent your comment as a reply to mine so i assume that you are missing my obvious point that i am agreeing that it is not fake

[PrivateCustard]

Nope, I just hit reply on the wrong comment!!

[pillzownsu]

Haha, what a beast =]

[KillerW0mbatt]

thats the cockpit view of the current world land speed record that is no fake

[TheSecondStain]

When were you born..? This is from 1997, and it's the cockpit of Thrust SSC, eventually on the way to a new land speed record.

It's absolutey REAL.

[Brian86992DH]

all of you are either accidentally clicking my comment to flame, or missing my blatant sarcasm, but either way, I'm am agreeing that THIS IS REAL, NOT FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JGMagoo]

Simple, Brian86992DH, Mediocrity and under-achievers like you many times hate those who have talent and achieve high goals.

[Brian86992DH]

whats up your ass? at no time did i say anything against the video, the people in the video, the poster of the video or you!

[eezy1972]

Not a fake! You're jealous. Also Thrust SSC didn't have a reverse gear, unlike Italian tanks!

[andykernahan]

The guy inside the cockpit has degree in mathematics from Oxford University and commands an operational wing of the RAF. I would hardly call him a retard.

[Reparo96]

Is this the interior of the actual car?

[woodchip200z]

y u steering for...u hit a bump think wat wasa that next thing u no u 5 miles away from that lil bump n worying about the next..

[josbogg]

I'm pretty sure there is not steering on the car, just the tail can be controlled for steadiness - he is reacting to the pressures being put on the car, so turning the 'steering wheel' is not actually throwing the car around, but making subtle differences.

[pooperscooper71]

I remember hearing he had issues balancing each engine also.

[PrivateCustard]

Thrust SSC has two offset rear wheels that allow for six degrees of steering movement.

Andy Green (the driver) once referred to Thrust as the fastest forklift in the world!!

[noobtubeacc]

you can't hear the sonic boom in the vehicle?

[rob95826]

I hate your ugly ass voice

[samsung1x111111x]

at least he does,nt sound like a brain dead idiot, he sounds like what he is an raf pilot with years of training and a 2nd to none education (a pro). This is how all pilots speak in the uk.

[kolodiazny]

i hate ur ugly ass face look at it, dont say shit abou people dick head

[apisanz]

make an intelligent comment jackass

[Ciuperciuc]

lol

that's insane and fantastic at the same time!