Monday 15 October marked 21 years since Thrust SSC set the current land-speed record of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph) in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The land-speed record, aka the fastest car on Earth, ...

Winter in 1997 was a glorious time to be alive. People were still hopeful after a change of government a few months earlier, England had just qualified for France 98, The Spice Girls were vying for ...

You are already the fastest man on terra firma. What was the Thrust SSC experience like, and how does it feel 17 years later? Building and running the world’s first supersonic car, and setting the ...

Andy Green broke the speed of sound in the mighty jet-engined Thrust SSC in 1997. The 63-year-old former RAF fighter pilot, whose land speed world record of 763.035mph has stood since 1997, is chasing ...