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==External links== * {{commons category-inline|ThrustSSC}} *[http://www.thrustssc.com/ Official Thrust SSC website] (no longer being updated) *[http://www.richard-noble.com/ Richard Noble] *[http://www.transport-museum.com Coventry Transport Museum] where Thrust SSC is on display *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130526082118/http://freespace.virgin.net/john.coppinger/thrustss.htm Photo-Diary] by John Coppinger β including the aerial photo by Richard Meredith-Hardy showing the [[shock wave]] as Thrust SSC narrowly exceeds the speed of sound *[http://www.boris-lux.de/04_types/31_re/97_tss/ts9701.php Thrust SSC] the car and the run *[http://www.andrewgraves.biz/ssc_stuff/SSC_pics.htm Thrust SSC Photos] Pictures from Blackrock, Nevada β 15 October 1997 * [http://speedrecordclub.com/ Speed Record Club] β The Speed Record Club seeks to promote an informed and educated enthusiast identity, reporting accurately and impartially to the best of its ability on record-breaking engineering, events, attempts and history. {{S-start}} {{S-ach|ach}} {{Succession box|title=[[Land speed record|FIA Outright World Land Speed Record holder]] (1 km) |before=ThrustSSC<br />{{nobold|{{small|713.990 MPH, 1,149.055 Km/h<br />set by [[Andy Green (RAF officer)|Andy Green]], on 25 September 1997.}}}}|after=Incumbent|years=760.343 MPH,<br />1,223.657 Km/h<br />set by [[Andy Green (RAF officer)|Andy Green]], on 15 October 1997.}} {{Succession box|title=[[Land speed record|FIA Outright World Land Speed Record holder]] (1 mile) |before=ThrustSSC<br />{{nobold|{{small|714.144 MPH, 1,149.303 Km/h<br />set by [[Andy Green (RAF officer)|Andy Green]], on 25 September 1997.}}}}|after=Incumbent|years=763.035 MPH,<br />1,227.985 Km/h<br />set by [[Andy Green (RAF officer)|Andy Green]], on 15 October 1997.}} {{S-end}} {{Thrust project}} {{Black Rock Desert|brdcat=History}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Jet land speed record cars]] [[Category:1997 in science]] [[Category:1997 in the United States]] [[Category:Black Rock Desert]] [[Category:Collection of the Coventry Transport Museum]] [[Category:1997 in sports in Nevada]] [[Category:Streamliner cars]]
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