"Thrust2 Thrust2 is a British designed and built jet propelled car, which held the world land speed record from 4 October 1983 to 25 September 1997. The car was designed by John Ackroyd and driven by Richard Noble. The project began with a budget of only £175. On 4 October 1983 the car reached a top speed of and broke the record at (average speed of two runs within one hour). This was achieved at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, US. It is powered by a single Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine sourced from an English Electric Lightning, and has"
"and Wing Commander and RAF pilot Andy Green. The two men, between them, have held the land speed record since 1983. In 1983, Noble, a self-described engineer, adventurer, and former paint salesman, reached 633 mph (1,019 km/h) driving a turbojet-powered car named Thrust2 across the Nevada desert. In 1997, he headed the project to build the ThrustSSC, which was driven by Andy Green at , thereby breaking the sound barrier, a record first for a land vehicle (in compliance with Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile rules). The project was named for the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile. Andy Green is also Bloodhound's"
"released the following message: The complete run history is available. In 1983 Richard Noble had broken the world land speed record with his earlier car Thrust2, which reached a speed of 1,019 km/h (633 mph). The date of Andy Green's record came exactly a half century and one day after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere, with the Bell X-1 research rocket plane on 14 October 1947. Both Thrust SSC and Thrust2 are displayed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, England. Thrust SSC is housed in a barrel-roofed hall. Visitors can board the pit trailer from"
"Only around 40 ARVs were made before the Isle of Wight factory closed. Thrust2, the record-breaking car driven by Noble, travelled at 633.468 mph (1019 km/h) in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, US. The accomplishment won Noble the 1983 Segrave Trophy. ThrustSSC, the supersonic car driven by Andy Green, broke the record at 763.035 mph (1221 km/h) or Mach 1.02. Noble is planning another land speed record attempt to take place in 2019: Bloodhound SSC aims to surpass 1,000 mph. Noble's next project was to develop the ""Farnborough F1"", a six-passenger single-engined turboprop low-wing aircraft designed as an ""Air"
", despite shredding a tire in the process. Ultimately it was Breedlove, immortalized by the Beach Boys in the song ""Spirit of America"", who emerged victorious as he posted a speed of on 15 November 1965. In 1970, Gary Gabelich piloted the rocket-powered Blue Flame to a new world record at Bonneville with a speed of . In 1983, this record was eclipsed by Thrust2, which was powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine and driven by Richard Noble to a speed of . In 1997, the world land speed record was bested once more by ThrustSSC, which achieved a"
"record for 11 years on September 13, 1948 by Rollie Free who rode a Vincent HRD (Black Shadow or Black Lightning) to a speed of 150.313 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Petrali died on November 10, 1973 in Casa Grande, Arizona due to a heart attack while attending a economy run for Buik, In 1992 He was included into the Motorsports Hall of Fame and 14 years later he was included into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. Joe Petrali Joe Petrali (February 22, 1904 – November 10, 1973) was a motorcycle racer, Joe Petrali also was"
"new Biffa Award Land Speed Record Gallery which opened in 2015. The car is 16.5 metres long and 3.7 metres wide and weighs nearly 10 tons. It had a total thrust of 223 kN (approximately 50,000 pounds force), equivalent to around 102,000 brake horsepower at the measured record speed (calculated using Power = Force x Velocity). The car was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in the state of Nevada. It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in the British version of the F-4 Phantom"
"Stan Barrett Stan Barrett (born June 26, 1943) is a Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator actor, and former Stock Car racing driver. His biggest act was however outside the movie world. On December 17, 1979, he attempted to break the land speed record, and the sound barrier in the Budweiser Rocket rocket-powered three-wheel vehicle. His calculated speed was 739.666 miles per hour, (Mach 1.01), which would have made Barrett the first man to break the sound barrier in a land vehicle. The attempt was surrounded by controversy and the speed was never officially recorded. Barrett also raced in 19 Winston Cup"
"Craig Breedlove Craig Breedlove (born March 23, 1937) is an American professional race car driver and a five-time world land speed record holder. He was the first person in history to reach , and , using several turbojet-powered vehicles, all named ""Spirit of America"". In 1962, he made his first attempt, in a freewheeling tricycle (ignoring FIA rules requiring four wheels, at least two driven; in the event, FIM happily accepted it) powered by a General Electric J47 turbojet engine. On August 5, 1963, this first ""Spirit"" made her first record attempt, using just 90% of available thrust to reach"
"and stunt coordinator/director. Son Stanton Barrett is also a Hollywood stuntman, and also a racing driver. He is the godson of Paul Newman, and the grandson of Dave McCoy and Roma McCoy, the founders of Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort. Stan Barrett Stan Barrett (born June 26, 1943) is a Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator actor, and former Stock Car racing driver. His biggest act was however outside the movie world. On December 17, 1979, he attempted to break the land speed record, and the sound barrier in the Budweiser Rocket rocket-powered three-wheel vehicle. His calculated speed was 739.666 miles per hour,"
"his peak speed as measured on a radar gun was approximately 552 km/h (345 mph). Warby's record still stands . There have only been two official attempts to break it, both resulting in the death of the driver. Lee Taylor tried to get the record back in 1980. Inspired by the land speed record cars ""Blue Flame"" and ""Budweiser Rocket"", Taylor built a rocket-powered boat, ""Discovery II"". The long craft was a reverse three-point design, similar to John Cobb's ""Crusader"", albeit of much greater length. Originally Taylor tested the boat on Walker Lake in Nevada but his backers demanded a"
"Human Powered Vehicle Association record, previously set by Canadian Sam Whittingham in 2009, by . The speed of was achieved over a stretch of road in Battle Mountain, Nevada, on a recumbent bicycle named VeloX3, designed by students from the Delft University of Technology and the VU University Amsterdam. He required a run-up of before setting the record. The VeloX3 bicycle he used has a profiled carbon fibre shell covered with the same type of coating used on Formula One cars. It experiences approximately one-tenth of the drag of a conventional bicycle, and uses a camera on the top for"
"Pioneer 2M Pioneer 2M was a Soviet Group VII land speed record car built in 1961 under the guidance of sportsman and engineer Ilya Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov. Based on the 1960 record car ""Pioneer 1"", the body was made of aluminum and the wheels of a magnesium alloy. It was powered by two gas turbine engines (800 hp each at 50000 rpm) placed on either side near the driver's seat. On 1 September 1963, Tikhomirov achieved a speed of 311.419 km/h (193.506 mph) for the measured kilometer at the Baskunchak dry salt lake, setting a Group VIII record and making it"
"in 2012 after eight years of service. Gary Gabelich Gary Gabelich (Croatian ""Gabelić""; August 29, 1940 – January 26, 1984) was an American motorsport driver who set the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Land Speed Record (LSR) with the rocket car Blue Flame on October 23, 1970, on a dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah. Gary Gabelich was born 29 August 1940 and was raised in southern California and attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School. He grew up during the height of the Southern California race scene and became friends with many famous racers of the"
"1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell-Railton Blue Bird (the first car to break 300 miles per hour); the Railton Mobil Special driven by John Cobb; Craig Breedlove's second Spirit of America, and Richard Noble's Thrust 2 which held the Land Speed Record from 1983 to 1997. These models were a big departure from the multiple-livery classic vehicle fare that Lledo normally made - they were entirely new castings and were not subsequently reproduced in any other promotional form (Rixon 2005, p. 57). The models were in varied scales from 1:80 to 1:100 (the real cars were very large). The promotion packed all"
"Bullet 3 achieved a new world record with a speed of 341.4 mph (549.43 km/h), beating its own previous record of 308 mph (495.14 km/h). Roger Schroer was the pilot for the record breaking run. Buckeye Bullet The Buckeye Bullet is a series of experimental electric cars created by Ohio State University students as a joint project with Venturi. The cars are designed to break the land speed record on the Bonneville Speedway, a salt flat just outside Wendover, Utah, United States. The VBB's have also been called the Venturi ""Jamais Contente"", referencing the electrically powered first vehicle to top"
"9,000 lb (4 t), construction is on a steel tube frame with an aluminium skin body. The engine is the same as in the second ""Spirit"", a GE J79, but it is modified to burn unleaded gasoline and generates a maximum thrust of 22,650 lbf (100.8 kN). The first run of the vehicle on October 28, 1996 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada ended in a crash at around 675 mph (1,086 km/h). Returning in 1997 the vehicle badly damaged the engine on an early run. The British ""ThrustSSC"" twin-Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan-engined LSR car upped the record to 763 mph"
"in the Bonneville 200 MPH Club. He became the driver of the world's fastest production Ford Mustang in 2008, and in 2016 used a restored and updated version of Mickey's 1968 prototype streamliner the ""Challenger 2"" to capture the SCTA unblown fuel streamliner record with an average speed of 406.7 mph. Thompson is responsible for the restoration and exhibition of many historically significant racing vehicles. On 12th August 2018 he broke the overall piston-driven land speed record with a speed of 448.75 mph, also in ""Challenger 2"". Danny Thompson (racing driver) Danny P. Thompson (born October 28, 1948) is an"
"the human-powered speed record of with a velomobile at Battle Mountain, Nevada. Dutch cyclist Fred Rompelberg set a speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 3, 1995 while cycling in the wake of a motor dragster pace-car. The wake of the pace-car reduced the aerodynamic drag against which Rompelberg pedalled to almost zero. Greg Kolodziejzyk set two world records recognized by both the International Human Powered Vehicle Association and Guinness (TM) World Records on July 17, 2006 on a race track in Eureka, California. The first record is for the most distance traveled in 24 hours"
"a new world speed record for mass-produced turbocharged station wagons with small engines (1,600 cc-2,000 cc class), clocking 270.532 km/h (168.101 mph) over one kilometer on Highway 10 in La Junta, Colorado. This record was previously set by a Generation II Subaru Legacy in 1993 at . The original Legacy speed record was set between January 2 and January 21, 1989, with three Japanese-spec turbocharged RS sedans at the Arizona Test Center outside of Phoenix, Arizona. It broke the 100,000 km FIA World Land Endurance Record by maintaining an average speed of 138.780 mph (223.345 km/h) for 447 hours, 44"
"MW which means the vehicle was operating at around 12% efficiency at its record speed, efficiency being the useful working power (76 MW) divided by the thermal power (630 MW). The record run in October 1997 was preceded by extensive test runs of the vehicle in autumn 1996 and spring 1997 in the Al-Jafr desert (located in Ma'an Governorate) in Jordan, a location unknown before for its capabilities as a test range for high speed land vehicles, with numerous advantages compared to the salt deserts of the Western United States. After the record was set, the World Motor Sport Council"
"speed record for the FIA Category A, Group 2, Class 9, 1 Kilometer, Flying Start] and Category A, Group 2, Class 9, 1 mile, Flying Start class with a speed of 285.359 mph (459.242 km/h) for the Kilometer and 285.305 mph (459.155 km/h) in the mile. Mike Nish Mike Nish (born December 10, 1959) is an American racing driver who competed in the CART Championship Car series and competes in world land speed record events. Nish competed in four CART races, one in 1984 at Phoenix International Raceway and 3 more in 1986 where he recorded his best finish of"
"make the attempt, to set a new land speed record in the 122-183 cubic inch (2-3 litre) class at Daytona Beach. On April 25, 1928, Lockhart's ""Stutz Black Hawk Special"" streamliner (named for the Indiana town that was home to Stutz's factory ) turned a warmup run of 198.29 mph (319.1 km/h), with his first official pass at 203.45 mph (327.40 km/h), well below the 207.552 mph (334.007 km/h) mark set earlier in the year by Ray Keech in his 81-litre (4178 ci) ""Triplex Special"". On Lockhart's return pass the ""Black Hawk Special"" cut a tire (probably on a seashell),"
"2007, Nish captured the SCTA AA/FS (Unlimited Fuel Streamliner) record with a speed of 377.715 mph (607.8732 km/h). He was also awarded the Hot Rod Trophy for achieving the top speed of the meet on the Bonneville Salt Flats. On October 8, 2007, Nish attempted to break the world land speed record for carbureted vehicles set in 1965, but his engine failed after 30 seconds. Mike Nish, as well as his father Terry and brothers Jeff and T. J. have successfully broken 14 different world land speed records over the years. On September 23, 2010, Nish broke the world land"
"United States. The trucks used in the beginning were actually working trucks with tandem rear axles and used street tires yet still attained speeds of 150 mph (241 km/h) on the front straight at Pocono Raceway and set the closed course record of 132 mph (212 km/h) in qualifying at Texas World Speedway by Charlie Baker on March 21, 1982. After 1986 when the series was bought by Glenn Donnelly of DIRT (Drivers Independent Race Tracks) the GATR trucks became highly modified with the bodies being cut and lowered, losing the tag axle and shedding more than 2,000 pounds in"
"ThrustSSC ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC or Thrust supersonic car is a British jet-propelled car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, Reece Liebenberg, Joshua Hambury and Jeremy Bliss. Thrust SSC holds the world land speed record, set on 15 October 1997, when it achieved a speed of and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier. Both Thrust SSC and Thrust2 are displayed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, England. 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"
"record at 415.896 mph (669.319 km/h) on 2008/09/26 (Class AI-I-11). ""Goldenrod"" was not supercharged, so it still held the class (AI-II-11) record until 21 September 2010, when Charles Nearburg in the ""Spirit of Rett"" increased this to 414.316 mph. The car went on tour for many years all across the U.S., then first ventured outside the country in 2000, when it was placed where the cricket pitch is, in the Goodwood Festival of Speed with the other land speed record cars. The surviving Summers brother, Bill, attended (Bob died in 1992). The Henry Ford museum bought the car in 2002,"
"set a speed record at Bonneville in a pre-production 928 S4. This 928 would turn 171.110 mph in the flying mile and 171.926 mph for the flying kilometer. In March 1986, the same car reportedly did 180+ mph at Nardo, but the Bonneville run netted United States Auto Club official record ""at the time"" for International Category A, Group 2, Class 9, for normally aspirated vehicles. That made 1987's 928 S4 the fastest non-turbocharged production car in the world. On September 15, 2011 at the Bonneville Salt Flats, racing driver and owner of 928 Motorsports, LLC. Carl Fausett set the"
"Dave Campos Dave Campos (born 1942, Santa Rosa, New Mexico) is a top-fuel drag motorcycle racer and held the motorcycle land speed record from 1990 until 2006. Campos set both the AMA and FIM absolute speed records on Saturday July 14, 1990 with an overall average speed of 518.450 km/h (322.150 mph), and a second, faster run at an average of 519.609 km/h (322.870 mph). The bike was a long streamliner named ""Easyriders,"" powered by two Ruxton-Harley-Davidson 1500 cc engines with a dry weight of . It is claimed that the record drew the largest ever crowd to Bonneville Salt"
"the world land speed record of 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) on October 23, 1970, using a combination of high-test peroxide and liquified natural gas (LNG), pressurized by helium gas. Propellant-grade hydrogen peroxide is being used on current military systems and is in numerous defense and aerospace research and development programs. Many privately funded rocket companies are using hydrogen peroxide, such as Armadillo Aerospace and Blue Origin, and some amateur groups have expressed interest in manufacturing their own peroxide, for their use and for sale in small quantities to others. HTP will be used again in an attempt to break the"
"yachts while attending college. He first crossed the Atlantic when he was 16. He also helped to sail the Matthew, a replica of John Cabot’s 13th century galleon in which the explorer discovered the island of Newfoundland. On 26 March 2009, Jenkins broke the world land speed record for a wind powered vehicle. He reached 126.1 mph (202.9 km/h) in his car Greenbird on the dry plains of Ivanpah Lake in Nevada. The previous record of was set by American Bob Schumacher in 1999, driving his vehicle the Iron Duck in the same location. Richard Jenkins (engineer) Richard Jenkins is"
"at an estimated speed of 140-150 mph. The car sailed in the air, breaking in half upon impact: Marriott was injured and did not make another attempt to break the record after he recovered. Marriott's mark for the steam land speed record, which had become the longest-standing such record, was finally broken more than 100 years later in August 2009 when Charles Burnett III of the British ""Inspiration"" team recorded an average speed of 139.843 mph (225.06 km/h) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Fred Marriott Fred Marriott (31 December 1872, Needham, Massachusetts - 28 April 1956) was an"
"146.16 mph (235.22 km/h) on Pendine Sands in his Sunbeam 350HP car ""Blue Bird"". Four other record-breaking runs were made on Pendine Sands between 1924 and 1927; two more by Campbell, and two by Welshman J. G. Parry-Thomas in his car ""Babs"". Firstly the barrier was broken by Campbell. In April 1926, Parry-Thomas added approximately 20mph to break the land speed record at 171.02 mph (273.6 km/h). Campbell raised the record to 174.22 mph (280.38 km/h) in February 1927 with his second ""Blue Bird"". On 3 March 1927 Parry-Thomas attempted to beat Campbell's record. On his final run while travelling"