After breaking the sound barrier of 1,223 kilometers per hour with Thrust SSC, a British team is building Bloodhound SSC to cross the 1,600-kph mark Apart from a brief break in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

In the fall of 1997, two bands of engineers high on speed danced on the dry lake bed in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. One broke the sound barrier and the other didn't. We sat down with the team that didn ...

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Twenty years after Thrust SSC went supersonic, there’s a new kid on the block – and it wants to claim its crown. The Bloodhound SSC hopes to top Thrust SSC’s 763.035 mph world land speed record with ...

Ben Evans receives funding from RAEng, EPSRC and Fujitsu. He is affiliated with EESW (Engineering Education Scheme in Wales). It was a staggering feat, a car that went faster than the speed of sound.