ThrustSSC
Sign in to saveAlso known as Thrust supersonic car
thumb|right|The team with ThrustSSC alt=|thumb|ThrustSSC on display in the Coventry Transport Museum's Landspeed Gallery alt=|thumb|Side view of Thrust SSC showing its branding and marks at Coventry Transport Museum thumb|right|One of the Rolls-Royce engines in the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Key facts
- Automobile.image
- Thrust SSC at Coventry Transport Museum.jpg
- Automobile.caption
- Thrust SSC at the Coventry Transport Museum, where it is part of the permanent collection.
- Automobile.name
- Thrust SSC
- Automobile.manufacturer
- SSC Programme Limited
- Automobile.predecessor
- Thrust2
- Automobile.successor
- Bloodhound LSR
- Automobile.class
- Land Speed Record vehicle
- Automobile.engine
- two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan:- Rolls-Royce Spey 202
- Automobile.weight
- 10.6 tonnes
- Automobile.designer
- Richard Noble, Glynne Bowsher, Ron Ayers, Jeremy Bliss and Reece Liebenberg
- Automobile.sp
- uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 10.6
- Image
- ThrustSSC.jpg
- Height
- 2.1
- Width
- 3.7
- Length
- 16.5
- Speed
- 763.035
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- nominal power output
- 110000
- Commons category
- ThrustSSC
- capital cost
- 10000000
- described at URL
- www.coventrycollections.org/search/details/collect/25407
- inventory number
- RT.2001/76
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Article
7 sectionsContents
- Details
- Legacy
- Richard Noble's Orange–Intel dispute
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|The team with ThrustSSC alt=|thumb|ThrustSSC on display in the Coventry Transport Museum's Landspeed Gallery alt=|thumb|Side view of Thrust SSC showing its branding and marks at Coventry Transport Museum thumb|right|One of the Rolls-Royce engines in the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
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 holds the world land speed record, set on 15 October 1997, and piloted by Andy Green, when it achieved a speed of and it became the first and only land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier. It was developed in Coventry.