This time it all went perfectly, and we had eight minutes to spare. You had broken the sound barrier and land speed record two days earlier, but didn’t get the car turned around within the requisite hour to make the runs count?ĪG: We missed by 49 seconds! It wasn’t much, but we had lots of minor delays. There were a number of things that had to go right. Everybody else had done their bit, and I now had to do mine - not only get the car through the first measured mile supersonic but then help the guys turn it around and drive it back supersonic again - and all within an hour. 15, 1997, and your record-setting runs in ThrustSSC.Īndy Green: We were at the end of five years of research and development, a huge engineering project. Following are edited excerpts from a longer conversation with Green about his current world record. If all goes well, the 135,000-hp Bloodhound is expected to run this fall. After scouting more than 20 locations on four continents, a dry lakebed called Hakskeen Pan in South Africa has been chosen as the venue.
Now Green is planning to break that record in another car, Bloodhound, a massive project in the wings since 2008 utilizing both a jet and rocket engine. The mark still stands today.Īndy Green’s Bloodhound SSC car is expected to run 1,000 mph in South Africa. Meet Andy Green, Who Broke The Sound Barrier In A Car And Plans To Go 1,000 MPH Later This YearĪs Andy Green prepares to hit 1,000 mph in his Bloodhound SSC jet/rocket car in South Africa later this year, we thought now would be a good time to reminisce about his current world record. In 1997, 50 years after Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in an aircraft, Green did it on the ground! Driving the ThrustSSC car at Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, he set a land speed record of 763.035 mph (average) down a measured mile and back.
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