Building a 1,000 mph car | Richard Nobles builds another car to set a world land speed record at over 1,000 mph | Machine Design

Building a 1,000 mph car | Richard Nobles builds another car to set a world land speed record at over 1,000 mph | Machine Design: "Building a 1,000 mph car

March 3, 2009

Stephen J. Mraz

Designing a car to go 1,000 mph is a constant lesson in compromise.
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Authored by:
Stephen J. Mraz
Senior Editor
smraz@penton.com

When it comes to world land-speed records, few people are as experienced and successful as Richard Noble, a Scotsman who has been directly involved in two record-breaking cars, Thrust2 (633 mph) and Thrust SSC (763 mph or Mach 1.02, the current record). So it should come as no surprise that he’s right in the middle of a project to develop a new land-speed record-setting car, the Bloodhound. And he hopes the Bloodhound will make a quantum leap over the current record, taking it to over 1,000 mph."