Thrust SSC Supersonic Boom

Many people have queried where the supersonic boom is on the record setting Thrust SSC runs.

Here is it loud and clear.

Run 65 Black Rock Desert. 15th October 1997. First of the two supersonic record runs.

Update - I have been duly corrected, it is of course a *sonic* boon not a supersonic one.

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Science & Technology

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• thrust
• ssc
• supersonic
• black
• rock
• andy
• green
• richard
• noble

[OyonTheAdept]

what if it ran over a rabbit? D:

[dcwhitworth]

@OyonTheAdept Very flat rabbit . . next question.

[TheeGrandmaster]

@dcwhitworth

I think you mean very dead driver, and utterly destroyed car.

[dcwhitworth]

@TheeGrandmaster The car weighs ten tons, a rabbit is unlikely to cause much trouble. Anyway there aren't rabbits in the Black Rock desert.

[Schtuppit]

0:44 : "We've done it." Pretty much sums it up in the course of human accomplishments..

[dcwhitworth]

@Schtuppit Actually it's "We've got it !", Andy Green was referring to the parachute opening correctly, something it hadn't done on previous runs. He knew it was a crucial moment, meaning they'd be able to turn the car around in time for a second run - a rare show of emotion from him.

[dcwhitworth]

@NorthWolfs Oh well, why didn't you say so before ? I'll contact the FIA at once !

[NorseCrusader]

Wasn't a US jet car called Spirit of America competeing with SSC at the same time and lost miserably?

[moshmanification]

Pussy car!!! I can paddle faster on my tricycle!!!

[MrRastaWayne]

@OyonTheAdept the rabbit would explode before that car even hit it :O

[MiltoniusAssassinAE]

They're recording from a SSC AERO TT.

I know dat supersonic shet, Likeaboss.

[dcwhitworth]

@xxTHEmuffinSNIPERxx Nope, wheel driven, as in the power goes through the wheels. Thrust SSC's wheels weren't driven, they merely rotated while the jet engines drove it forwards.

[xxTHEmuffinSNIPERxx]

@dcwhitworth you meen piston driven cars not wheel driven cause obviously the SSC has wheels but is not piston driven.