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Thrust SSC achieved the world's first Supersonic Land Speed Record on Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA at an average speed of Mach 1.02 on a two way run within the hour on 15-Oct-1997. Congratulations to project director Richard Noble, driver Andy Green and all those associated with the project. The official web site for Thrust SSC is http://www.thrustssc.com and Richard Noble's own web site is at http://www.richard-noble.co.uk/. A site by John Coppinger at http://freespace.virgin.net/john.coppinger/thrustss.htm has some nice images of the team during the record breaking campaign.
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| Thrust SSC |
Plans from the book Thrust by Richard Noble, published
by Partridge, 1998.
Length: 54ft. Width: 12 ft.
Wheelbase: 28ft. Front Track: 9.75ft. Rear Track: 1ft.
Dry Weight: 9.5 tons Fuel Weight: 1 ton
Engines: 2X Rolls Royce Spey 202 Thrust: 2X22,000lbs.
Chute: 7.5ft. dia. Front Wheels: 34in. X 10in. Rear Wheels: 34in. X 6in.
Reference images of Thrust SSC and the Black Rock Desert Course are available here.
| Scenery for Black Rock Desert, Nevada |
Black Rock scenery and movement for Thrust dynamic scenery prepared by Iain Murray <irmurray@computing.dundee.ac.uk>. Iain's own web page is here.
Instructions for installing the scenery and for enabling the Thrust SSC dynamic scenery are here.
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