Editing ThrustSSC (section)

==Details==
The jet was driven by [[Royal Air Force]] fighter pilot [[Wing commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] [[Andy Green (RAF officer)|Andy Green]] in the [[Black Rock Desert]] in the [[US state]] of [[Nevada]]. It was powered by two [[afterburner (engine)|afterburning]] [[Rolls-Royce Spey]] [[turbofan]] engines, as used in the [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in UK service|British version of the F-4 Phantom II]] jet fighter. The twin engines developed a net [[thrust]] of 223&nbsp;kN (50,000&nbsp;lbf) at the measured record speed of 341&nbsp;metres per second,<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000512021948/http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents-story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 May 2000|title=The ThrustSSC Story}}</ref> burning around 18 litres/second (4.0 [[Imperial gallon]]s/s or 4.8 [[US gallon]]s/s) of fuel. This was about {{convert|4850|L/100 km|2|abbr=on}}.

After the record was set, the [[World Motor Sport Council]] released the following message: 
:The World Motor Sport Council [[homologation (motorsport)|homologated]] the new world land speed records set by the team ThrustSSC of Richard Noble, driver Andy Green, on 15 October 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada (USA). This is the first time in history that a land vehicle has exceeded the [[speed of sound]]. The new records are as follows:
:*Flying mile&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{convert|1227.985|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}
:*Flying kilometre&nbsp;{{convert|1223.657|km/h|mph|abbr=on}}
:In setting the record, the sound barrier was broken in both the north and south runs.
::::Paris, 11 November 1997.

The complete run history is available.<ref>{{citation |title=Thrust SSC Run database |url=http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Status-19971015.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205002454/http://www.thrustssc.com/Latest_News/Status-19971015.html |archive-date=5 Feb 2013 |url-status=live}}{{self-published source|date=October 2022}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}</ref>{{self-published source|date=October 2022}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022}}