Thrust SSC- The World's Fastest Land Vehicle

Thrust SSC (SuperSonic Car) is a British-designed and built jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers and Jeremy Bliss.

ThrustSSC holds the World Land Speed Record, set on October 15, 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph) and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier, not considering the earlier, unsubstantiated claim of the Budweiser Rocket.

The car was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Squadron Leader Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, United States. It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in British F-4 Phantom II jet fighters. It is 16.5 m (54 ft) long, 3.7 m (12 ft) wide and weighs 10.5 tons (10.7 t). The twin engines developed a thrust of 223 kN (50,000 lbf) and burned around 4 Imperial gallons per second (18.2 l/s or 4.8 US gallons/s). Transformed into the usual terms for car mileages based on its maximum speed, the fuel consumption was about 5,500 l/100 km or 0.04 mpg U.S.

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[malfunctioningbang]

Welcome to Star Wars!!!

Even R2D2 sounded scared lol

[elmarko99]

something for british people to be proud of

[blotto85]

we are smart monkeys!

[ucmyway]

No Batman, you can't have one...

[gamblemadman]

@NorthWolfs But does it qualify as the world fastest land vehicle?

mmm, let me see ... YES!

Reason: It runs on land.

[NorthWolfs]

Disqualified as a car. Reason: ITS HAS FUCKING JET BOOSTERS

[BrucePartingtonPlans]

@mrsandman00

If you mean at 0:52 I think what Andy Green is saying is "150 looking for min burn", meaning that it's at that point that he is expecting to see the engines starting to burn (i.e. flame becoming visible). You'll note immediately after that he says "nice light together, slightly wriggly" as both engines start to burn.

[mrsandman00]

Can someone tell me what this guy is saying when he says "150 in the kimifimblar"

[RuneFinity44]

@acmcook

dude chill i was trollin

[acmcook]

@RuneFinity44 this was 14 years ago.... so no digital camera. and it wasn't a massive film studio camera attached to the tail was it... hence the bad quality...

[gamblemadman]

@RuneFinity44 You think this is fake?