Human beings achieved many ‘firsts’ in the 20th century. We climbed the planet’s highest mountains, dived its deepest undersea trench, flew over it faster than the speed of sound, and even escaped it ...

Thrust SSC was born. Ayers’s subsequent “retirement” projects included designing the Farnborough F1 aircraft and the JCB Dieselmax that took the land-speed diesel vehicle record from 200 mph to 350 ...

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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 ...