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    ThrustSSC, Thrust SSC or Thrust SuperSonic Car is a British jet car developed by Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, and Jeremy Bliss. Thrust SSC...
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  • Thrust2 across the Nevada desert. In 1997, he headed the project to build ThrustSSC, which was driven by Green at 763 mph (1,228 km/h), thereby breaking the...
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  • particles in a collider Thrust bearing, particular type of rotary bearing Thrust (arch), a horizontal force in arch action ThrustSSC, and Thrust2, the land-speed...
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    Thrust2 (redirect from Thrust 2)
    Britain. The bid was successful, and today Thrust2 and its successor, ThrustSSC, are displayed at the Coventry Transport Museum in Coventry, England....
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    Retrieved 2014-03-20. "ThrustSSC - History - The Blue Flame". © SSC Programme Ltd, 1997. "ThrustSSC - History - The Blue Flame". © SSC Programme Ltd, 1997...
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    only one land vehicle has officially travelled at supersonic speed, the ThrustSSC. The vehicle, driven by Andy Green, holds the world land speed record...
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    lb/(lbf·h) with afterburner, 0.63 lb/(lbf·h) at military thrust Thrust-to-weight ratio: 5:1 ThrustSSC Related development Allison TF41 Rolls-Royce Marine Spey...
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  • partially built in Texas by the US government before being canceled in 1993 Thrust SSC, world's first supersonic land vehicle and current land speed record holder...
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    eastern part of the governorate, was the location of extensive tests of the ThrustSSC, the British-built currently fastest land vehicle in the world, which...
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    speed record between 1983 and 1997. He was also the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which holds the current land speed record, set at Black Rock...
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    of Automobiles (Volume 2, p.231). "Land Speed Record History | Bloodhound SSC Risbridger". Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved...
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    Richard Noble, engineer behind the Thrust series of land speed record cars Thrust2 which he drove, and ThrustSSC, the supersonic Land Speed Record holder...
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    the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock...
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  • the organization certifying the record, and the actual speed achieved. ThrustSSC, which has held the land speed record since 1997 VeloX3, formerly the...
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    Parachutes have been used in land, air and space vehicles such as the ThrustSSC, Eurofighter Typhoon and Apollo Command Module. Some older Soviet passenger...
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    or speak to a curator. Notable exhibits in the museum are Thrust2 and ThrustSSC, the British jet cars which broke the land speed record in 1983 and 1997...
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    Ron Ayers led work on the aerodynamics, having previously worked on the ThrustSSC land speed record car. During the 2006 Bonneville Speed Week and subsequent...
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    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...
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  • land speed record-holding vehicles, ThrustSSC and JCB Dieselmax, and was Chief Aerodynamicist for the Bloodhound SSC. Born in Westminster, London, England...
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    heard at greater distances either, in marked contrast to the runs of ThrustSSC, which generated extensive and well attested sonic booms over a wide area...
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    with the all-time record held by a rocket car. A turbofan powered car, ThrustSSC, currently holds the land speed record. Jet engine designs are frequently...
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  • person ever to break the sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, US, reaching a speed...
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  • the World's Fastest Car". 4 November 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018. "ThrustSSC". "clinicalimagingscience.org - Photoacoustic Imaging: Opening New Frontiers...
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  • Ron Ayers (born 1932), British aeronautical engineer and designer of ThrustSSC Rowan Ayers (1922–2008), television producer and poet Roy Ayers (1940–2025)...
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    020.348 km/h). Noble also headed up the team that beat the Thrust 2 record. In 1997, ThrustSSC, driven by Andy Green, became the world's first, and so far[as...
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    challenge the 763 mph (1,228 km/h) (Mach 1.02) land speed record set by the ThrustSSC in 1997. The venture was a collaboration between Canadian and US engineers...
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  • the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock...
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  • virus. October 15 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom. November 23 – "Lisa the Skeptic" first broadcast...
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    vehicle badly damaged the engine on an early run and when the British ThrustSSC managed over 700 mph (1,100 km/h), the re-engined Spirit could do no better...
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  • breaks the land speed record at Black Rock in the Nevada desert. His ThrustSSC jet car sets an average speed of 714 mph, 81 mph faster than the previous...
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