Thrust2
Sign in to saveThrust2 is a British jet car, which held the world land speed record from 4 October 1983 to 25 September 1997.
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It is catalogued under topics including Black Rock Desert, Collection of the Coventry Transport Museum and Jet land speed record cars.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Automobile.image
- 300px
- Automobile.caption
- Thrust2 on display in the Coventry Transport Museum
- Automobile.name
- Thrust2
- Automobile.manufacturer
- SSC Programme Limited
- Automobile.predecessor
- Blue Flame
- Automobile.successor
- ThrustSSC
- Automobile.class
- Land Speed Record vehicle
- Automobile.engine
- Rolls-Royce Avon
- Automobile.weight
- 10.6 tonnes
- Automobile.designer
- John Ackroyd
- Automobile.sp
- UK
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Conception
- Early stages and Thrust1
- Overview of the results achieved with Thrust2
- Technical data and vehicle information
- Data and information on the record attempts
- After breaking the record
- Notes
- References
- External links
Thrust2 is a British jet car, which held the world land speed record from 4 October 1983 to 25 September 1997.
The Thrust2 is powered by a single Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine sourced from an English Electric Lightning, and has a configuration somewhat resembling that of the mid-1960s-era J79 turbojet-powered land speed record cars of Art Arfons, collectively known as the "Green Monster" cars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thrust2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.