![]() It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in the British version of the F-4 Phantom II jet fighter. The car was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in the state of Nevada. Jet engines are not designed to operate at peak airspeed while still in ground effect a proper estimate would need to take this into account. It had a reported thrust of 223 kN (approximately 50,000 pounds force) at some operating condition. The car is 16.5 m (54 ft) long and 3.7 m (12 ft) wide and weighs nearly 10 tons. As part of the Museum's redevelopment project, both cars were relocated by specialist haulier from their position in the Museum's Spirit of Speed Gallery to the new Biffa Award Land Speed Record Gallery which opened in 2015. Thrust SSC holds the world land speed record, set on 15 October 1997, and driven by Andy Green, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph) and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.īoth Thrust SSC and Thrust2 are displayed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, England. ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC or Thrust SuperSonic Car is a British jet car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, and Jeremy Bliss. One of the engines in the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum ![]()
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