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* http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html (www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html) | * http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html (www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html) | ||
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* http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/ (www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/) Jet-powered car breaks sound barrier twice | |||
October 13, 1997 | |||
* http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/speed.20.mov (www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/speed.20.mov) | |||
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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North American Eagle
- http://www.landspeed.com/blackrock.html North American Eagle World Landspeed Challenger
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
- http://www.thrustssc.com/ (www.thrustssc.com) -- Thrust SSC
- http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html (www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Issue_176_Lead_Article.html)
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- http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/ (www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/) Jet-powered car breaks sound barrier twice
October 13, 1997
- http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/speed.20.mov (www.cnn.com/TECH/9710/13/land.speed.record/speed.20.mov)
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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- http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/SearchResults.aspx?searchText=%22BLACK+ROCK+DESERT+(NEVADA)%22&type=Keyword BBC Motion Gallery - Search Results "BLACK ROCK DESERT (NEVADA)"
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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.