Thrust SSC as it happened - 1997 News Reports
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- News spots and reports from British TV Sept / Oct 1997 reporting the various attempts and eventual success of ThrustSSC in setting a supersonic World Land Speed Record.
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1:02:33 - when you can finally hear and see (camera shakes) the sound barrier being broken. Thanks for another awesome video!
And being British , the turnaround time included them all having a cup of tea, making this an even bigger feat!
And they talked about how nice the weather was whilst doing it.
Don't forget they had to have at least one union strike.
only we, can demonstrate COOL like this, and rub the noses of the ''also ran's' in it.
You have to have a couple of chocolate degistives to dip in the tea and spoon to fish them out when theyu break ;)
Standard operating procedure dear boy! 😊
Proper reporting, god i miss it.
isn't it dumbed down now
43:26 Craig Breedlove is a quality person. a man of integrity and honour.
and quite the canny fellow!
He broke the record five times between 1963 and 1965
1:32 just casually filming a road jet doing almost 500mph. just casually.
Thank you for posting this video Scarf.
A young Sophie Raworth and Philippa Forrester...damn, time flies.
Who's here 24 years later? How time flies!!
Gerlach Race Days, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary! Oct 14-16, 2022.
Andy Green was later fined and disqualified from driving for twelve months, for breaking the speed limit of 55mph!. The Judge told him, it wasn’t because we’re sore losers!!”.
I was working for Arrows F1 at the time this happened. The internet was not so good back then, but when Andy did the first run everything stopped & we all watched the original broadcast in between making sure our F1 car was sorted. F1 people very good at multi tasking 🙂 This was a stunning event & I'm very happy to have met Andy & Richard at BAR F1 later on. Amazing people
Andy Green the coolest person I've ever met, and having lunch with him & Richard a memory I'll never forget
Excellent reporting, very professional
Can been seen at the transportation museum in Coventry England on display .
I remember going to see and getting my pic taken next to Thrust 2 at the transport museum when i was at primary school and my poster of Richard Noble in the cockpit (giftshop purchase) was on my wall for many years after.
Great, thanks for posting this.
Hats off to the designers of that beast . I bow down to Allen Green , run after run at over 600 miles per hour , then runs at over 700 mph . The guy must have balls of iron
Is that Andy's stunt double?
@@billyray1172
I think David Nobel might have something to say about this..
I so wish they would get this car out of the great Coventry car museum & fire up its engines again. The crowd would be amazing! Its sad these amazing vehicles get retired & hidden away when they are capable of so much more. Just hearing the jet engines firing up is amazing
It seems this video repeats itself
Thank you for the upload. Great footage.
Glad you enjoyed it
❤ superbly put together.thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
indeed, the sense of deja vu got sublime towards the end
What a gentleman Craig Breedlove is. Pure class. He can be very proud but was unlucky and technical problems could have hit Andy Green and not Craig. Just bad luck but the main thing is everyone is alive and well.
2.03 " It looks fast" !!!!!!!!!!! So it wasn't just me imagining that looked quite fast then?
It's nice to get it confirmed by the experts, eh?😂😂
no---his ''reward' for observation should be, the privilage of running along-side of the car, wiping the dust off it.
766mph, wow
Great, congratulations
I love the fact we went to the USA to break their OWN record in their OWN backyard!
@Justice Boofer Thing called irony. FFS
@Justice Boofer No I merely answered your question
Do you know how boring competition is without good competitors?
@@tylerlucas5773 DO you know how irritatingly competitive USA is?
@@dantaylor7344 and the Brits can thank the USA for even being able to come here to break records since we had to come save y’all from speaking German. You can also thank our competitiveness to save you from speaking Russian & worshipping statues of Stalin.
RIP Terry Lloyd. Sadly, his Killers will never be brought to Justice.
I remember at the time when the news came out, he was riddled with US bullets. Very sad.
who knew that it could have been a 2 horse british race with the mclaren maverick? i recall thurst ssc turning up to my work place after getting the record. what a great day :)
@@johnnymejia3689 adobe creator software suite?... Alas that is anything but fast.
No no no. The MC Laren would have lifted off at 600 MPH because it was too
light.
And Ron Dennis had the F1 road car on his feet.
@@alexandermathar7780 "scarf & goggles" LSR channel also said that if mcLaren had won the LSR battle they would have been seen as goliath beating david with the thrust SSC team, the extra cash stress of the F1 car - they canned it. interestingly Senna would have been the driver!
At 14:57 he said that the speed needs to be atleast 1% over the current record to count? So later on thrust could have set a record of 757mph with no sonic booms and then went on to the 763mph with sonic booms and it wouldn't have counted as a land speed record because its not more than 1% above 757mph. Does the timing equipment have a 1% margin of error?
Hi - thanks for your comment! The FIA rules stipulate that new records have to exceed the current record by at least 1%. Interesting point you raise though - it’s possible that the 1% rule was originally introduced to cover timing discrepancies before electronic timing systems were introduced.
01:43 that is incredible to see the technology they came up with.
Have you heard Andy Greens in car narrative?
He sounds like a vicar driving a Morris Minor to the village fete 😁
And my best wishes to Craid Breedloves family. My Tears are with you all
What are the Americans up to though? Not much by the look of it! Although deep respect Craig Breedlove, a true genius and brave man. About time somebody went for another LSR though, wherever they're from. Love and peace.
All of the recent projects to challenge this record have run into funding problems. North American Eagle crashed killing its driver. Bloodhound LSR seems to have run out of money. Aussie Invader 5R is the only one that seems to have some life left in it.
Didn’t Stan Barrett set the LSR in 1979 @ 734 mph breaking the sound barrier of 731mph at the respective conditions. Why are they saying the record is 633? What am I missing? Are different records kept for rocket power vs turbin power.? The LSR is the LSR right? Someone help me understand.
The world land speed records are run under the supervision of the French FIA and it clearly stipulates that to qualify TWO runs must be completed in OPOSITE directions within a 1 HOUR (or 10 hour as apropriate) period. I sugest you go research the FIA apendix D it is all in there.
Still recovering from 6 exhausting weeks on the Blackrock 24 years back.
Because Stan Barrett *didn't* break the LSR or the SOS barrier in 1979. Since him and Hal Needham, the person who owned the Budweiser rocket car, did their run without any FIA or FIM officials to independently verify the speed achieved, nor have the team ever released the radar data that was recorded by the US Air Force at Edwards AFB that day.
The only people who think Barrett broke the sound barrier 14 years before Andy Green and Thrust SSC did, is Barrett himself, Needham (who took that false belief to his grave) and a few of the excitable spectators who saw the supposed supersonic run.
It never was officially verified and has been rightly dismissed for record purposes.
I hope that answers your questions.
build me anything ill drive it and bring the record back home i aint scared
Thrust SSC (1997) is by FAR a much, MUCH sexier and beastly looking machine than the odd-looking Bloodhound (2019).
Yes. Because looks is what they're going for?
gah. 'afterburner' :'( in the UK we call it 'reheat' because thats what the guy who invented it called it.
Yes that is true. But not even the most British nan can resist an F14 Tomcat with full afterburn! Lol
if andy green does it again and breaks the land speed record twice in 2020 he be in the record books for eons to come :)
"aeons"
@@christopherdean1326 "eons" is correct.
@@olliefoxx7165 First google hit was for "aeons". Other hits for "eons", never seen it spelled that way before.
That first run was Mach 0.903203
Still can't hear the boom.
At 1:02:40
This video could have been trim to 8 minutes , I don't understand why they had to repeat everything ten times
Do you ever think to yourself that you're not normal? Fast Forward instead of moaning on CZcams you fanny.
@@martinallenuk what have you just done , lol asshole lol
Neil Macleod, WHAT? your reply doesn’t make any sense.
Back when Britain was still capable of doing something. We need the SSC team to deal with the never ending flow of rubber boats arriving on our shores.
Don't think a rubber boat is the right shape to go supersonic.
i wanto go fast
I'm not sure if they were more concerned about the record, or if they were still gonna beat the Americans 😂
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20:24 Viv... what ever happened to the Americans dare I ask? snicker snicker
Sold the car to Steve Fosset
Well I know the run up script word for word now. O-70 in a sedate 20 seconds........
I thrust ssc
Okay.
Who's the tomorrow's world girl?
It''s Philippa Forrester!
37:30 "And a sonic blast could be heard"..... Just loud whistling noises
And that goofball news guy right after that - "What was the point?".... "Is this the end of the 'performance' in the desert?" lol who even is this guy, and could he give less of a shit? 😂
I wonder why they even need a driver with today's computers, surely much cheaper than a human life?!
because it wont be the same It a human achievement not a computer program
David Lutz, AKA Mr. Doesn’t Get It.
I jsut watched this on you tube on my tv & towsrds the end of the programcommentator said; no-one knew what would happen once the car went faster than sound it was genuinely a trip into the unknown ..... It was at this point my thoughts were it's gonna disappear then suddenly reappear hitting a pine tree & then crashing into a barn......... then my mind came back to reality 😂😂😂
As has been documented, Buckaroo Banzai was the first to proceed, on land, beyond the 'sound barrier'...and he was in a modified Ford truck !:
czcams.com/video/8jK3RW6rSCM/video.html
And, WAH is Stage 2?
He did not get the right speed, i31:40 mark, lol miles he said 750 miles per hour, when officially it needs to break 768 miles per hour in both runs, not just one way?
The speed of sound varies with temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.
At 38:38 This guy....... LOL
Sonic boom ?
1:04:30; 1:04:55; 2 x double sonic booms; you didn't watch through?
VITA kyo 1:04.52
Is that a question or a statement? 🤔
That’ll be three points on his licence then…
Dick Dastardly and Mutley
35:54 hot
Ahh a fellow coomer i see
@@detroitrockcity3389 A what?
Why is this not all over the UK news? Shame on you British press!
ryanshern73 because this was in 1997
I can't believe the North American Eagle Team thought they could best this vehicle with a tweeked-out F104.
put me in a car show me what buttoin to push got the right team we will bring the record back
im not scared
You should watch the documentary about it.... fun fact it has rear wheel steering....
Do you think not being scared is all it takes to pilot a LSR car? It takes equal measures of patience, technical knowledge, an excellent memory, feel for the vehicle gained over months of grueling testing, high intelligence and an ability to persevere after many crushing disappointments. Not to mention public relations skills.
Jeremy paxman…. Ffs… 😂 “What’s the point of all this?” 😂😂😂
what the heck
we had a prince set the record on water europeans on land im not racist but we as americans were the fastest forever is this what video games bvring us
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when was the last time we as americans set any record not being rude just want the us back on top
my boss was the fastest for a long time
To answer your question, the last time America *officially* held the land speed record was in the brief seconds before Richard Noble crossed the measured mile for the second of his two record breaking runs in Thrust2 in 1983.
The holder of that record was Gary Gabelich in the rocket-propelled Blue Flame, with a speed of 622.407 mph (1010km/h) over the measured mile (630.478 mph, 1014.656 km/h over a kilometre) way back in October 1970.. therefore becoming the first person to register a speed of 1000 km/h on land. It stood for almost 13 years before Noble would break it.
By the look of things currently, it'll be a *loooong* time before America will be challenging to take on this feat.
Nascar ain't nothing compared to these guys
These days Nascar is just a soap opera.
0 to 70 in 20 seconds my car faster. Hopefully Bloodhound SSC will try to brake this record
it can't open thrust more at low speeds or the jets pull the sand in
Stan Barrett broke it the first time in 1979.
No, he didn't.
No. My mate Bob did it on his Honda bike. Unfortunately there was only one run, the timing equipment broke and there was no sonic boom.
Which makes it just as official as Stan Barrett's run
Dude! Where r da Russians on this? Can some of these oligarths put something together to break a land record?
It’s easier to make money by stealing it.
Before Sky News went Woke…
No female representation whatsoever 🙄
@ukkowalski 🙄
This is being ironic, isn't it?
If not I have news for you. No one cares whether you're male or female, the people on the team are the most intelligent and have the most passion. To hire females when there are many times more men interested in it, is called sexism.
r/whoosh
@@Jakko25 Mate not everyone is having a good old time and laughing. About a joke. This isn't reddit where everyone is lying or joking to get on r/woosh or r/thathappened. You need to grow up and learn the world does not think exactly like you.
@@_Andrew2002 jesus dude calm yourself. Look at the geezers name, blatant piss take! Calm yourself seriously, you don't know me so don't tell me to grow up, not trying to get onto reddit I'm just going along with what is a clear fucking joke. If you can't see that then im sorry, don't take everything to heart! Bit of comedy never harmed anybody did it...
Utterly pathetic reporting from the ludicrous BBC....
Not fit for purpose - stop paying the stupid licence fee......
WOW BIG BALLS TO DRIVE THAT go andy
Great, thanks for posting this.