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Bloodhound SSC will make its record attempt next year

Rocket car will head to South Africa, where it hopes to break 1,000 mph

We've been following the progress of the Bloodhound SSC supersonic land speed record car for a while. Last fall, it managed to complete some successful test runs. With those out of the way, the next step is the record attempt. The group behind the car announced that it will make an attempt in the fall of 2019, probably between October and November.

Bloodhound team says testing of the supersonic car is a go

What is presumably the world's fastest car has been sitting still for a long time, but that might change in, well, a few months. A date has been set for the Bloodhound supersonic land-speed car to be tested for the first time - in October. Or in the words of the team's press release: "Bloodhound is go!" The testing at Cornwall Airport Newquay, in England, will come 20 years after RAF Wing Cmdr. Andy Green steered the Thrust SSC to the current record of 763.035 mph. Green is signed o

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Meet the men driven to reach 1,000 mph on land

Andy Green and Richard Noble already broke the sound barrier once on dry land, and claimed the World Land Speed Record in the process Now they're at it again, bent on reaching 1,000 miles per hour in the Bloodhound SSC.

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