29 Sep 2017, 11:28 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Slowly but surely, the British-led project that aims to correct the standing land speed record by more than 200 mph is getting ready for the big day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The quest to drive the fastest car in the world has hit yet another slowdown: The Bloodhound SSC team has announced that its ...

On the morning of October 15, 1997, a dust trail streaked across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. At its apex, driver Andy Green braced himself at the wheel of thrust SSC as the jet-powered car reached ...

Bloodhound SSC is a British designed supersonic land vehicle, currently under development, with the aim of smashing the world land-speed record. The pencil-shaped car, designed for optimal ...

The land speed record has stood at around 763 miles per hour since it was set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC back in 1997. The former air force pilot turned jet car driver was set to break his own record ...

Engineers work on the carbon-fiber body of the Bloodhound SSC, which could shatter the global land speed record within the next two years. LONDON — A rocket-powered car unveiled Thursday in London ...

Solid metal disks are the only material capable of supporting the required centripetal acceleration of spinning that fast without failing catastrophically. Its wheels are solid disks of aluminum, each ...

The Bloodhound SSC is a car unlike any other. Shaped like a wingless airplane and powered by a Typhoon jet engine plus a custom-designed rocket, it can push out the equivalent of 135,000hp and will ...

Bloodhound SSC has tested the rocket engine powering the car it plans to use to break the land speed record.

The Bloodhound SSC project expects to fire a supersonic car 12 miles along a South African plain at over 1,000 mph, shattering the land speed record. WSJ's Ben Rooney reports from the first full ...

Are there some practical implications of developing this technology or is this just for bragging rights? I'm trying to decide how much I should care about this. I'm not knocking anyone who wants to ...