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2. Bloodhound LSR - Wikipedia

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   The car will use one EJ200 to provide around half the thrust and power the car to 650 mph (1,050 km/h). [48] [17] A custom monopropellant rocket designed by Nammo will be used to add extra thrust for the world land speed record runs. For the 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h) runs, the monopropellant rocket will be replaced with a hybrid rocket from Nammo ...

3. List of vehicle speed records - Wikipedia

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   Land speed records by surface Category Speed (km/h) Speed (mph) Vehicle Operator Date Certifier Refs On ice: 335.7: 208.6: Audi RS 6: Janne Laitinen 9 Mar 2013

4. Land speed record - Wikipedia

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   British land speed record; Production car speed record; Railway speed record; Motorcycle land speed record; Aero-engined car; Pioneer 2M – Soviet Union attempt at the land speed record in early 1960s; Budweiser Rocket – Claimed but not verified to have reached 739.666 miles per hour (1,190.377 km/h) and to have broken the sound barrier in 1979

5. Rocket car - Wikipedia

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   A rocket car is a land vehicle propelled by a rocket engine. A rocket dragster is a rocket car used for competing in drag racing , and this type holds the unofficial world record for the 1/4 mile. Opel RAK.1 - World's first public flight of a manned rocket-powered plane on September 30, 1929

6. Blue Flame - Wikipedia

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   Blue Flame is a rocket-powered land speed racing vehicle that was driven by Gary Gabelich and achieved a world land speed record on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on October 23, 1970. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) and the flying kilometer at 630.388 mph (1,014.511 km/h). [1]

7. Budweiser Rocket - Wikipedia

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   The Budweiser Rocket is an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a liquid rocket engine with an extra solid-fuel booster from a Sidewinder missile, [1] that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land. The ...

8. ThrustSSC - Wikipedia

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   In 1983 Richard Noble had broken the world land speed record with his earlier car Thrust2, which reached a speed of 1,019 km/h (633 mph). The date of Andy Green's record came exactly a half century and one day after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Earth's atmosphere, with the Bell X-1 research rocket plane on 14 October 1947.

9. Spirit of America (automobile) - Wikipedia

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   After a lengthy break from world records Breedlove began work on a new Spirit in 1992, eventually named the Spirit of America Formula Shell LSRV.The vehicle is 44 ft 10 in long, 8 ft 4 in wide, and 5 ft 10 in high (13.67 m by 2.54 m by 1.78 m) and weighs 9,000 lb (4 t), construction is on a steel tube frame with an aluminium skin body.