Land Speed Record

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Chronology

October 4, 1983 Black Rock Desert, USA United Kingdom Richard Noble Thrust2 Turbojet — 633.468 1019.47 Record stood for 13 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record

September 25, 1997 Black Rock Desert, USA United Kingdom Andy Green ThrustSSC Turbofan 760.343 1223.65 763.035 1227.99 First supersonic record (Mach 1.016) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record


North American Eagle

Spirit of America

  • http://www.chron.com/class/cars/timspell/archive/120306.html Craig Breedlove 5-time world land-speed record holder blasts into motorsports history By TIM SPELL, CRAIG Breedlove sat down to talk with me about future plans and his historical land-speed-record runs. It was November of 1997, Spirit of America

Thrust SSC

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October 13, 1997

GERLACH, Nevada (CNN) - A British jet-powered car broke the sound barrier on land twice on Monday, officials said, making it the fastest object to have ever moved on wheels.

On the first run, the Thrust SuperSonic car roared across Nevada's Black Rock Desert at 764.168 mph, or 1.007 percent above the speed of sound, according to the official timekeepers.

The car, driven by British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, left a muffled boom in its wake as it raced across the desert in clouds of dust.

Green, 35, achieved the milestone on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the first supersonic flight, by American test pilot Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947.

The sound barrier, which varies according to altitude and temperature, is currently 755 mph on the Black Rock Desert. Green set the previous world speed record for a car on September 25 when he took Thrust up to 714 miles per hour.

On Sunday, the "Spirit of America" team led by Craig Breedlove made a test run of 517 miles per hour following a 531 mph run on Saturday. It's not clear what's next, if anything, for the Americans.

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1977 October 15th - The first supersonic land speed record was set in Nevada's Black Rock Desert 125 miles north of Reno. The record set was 766.100 mph.