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The jet powered car reached 1,227.985 kilometres per hour in 1997. The figure is taken from ThrustSSC, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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ThrustSSC broke the sound barrier on land

The jet powered car reached 1,227.985 kilometres per hour in 1997 Driven by Andy Green at Black Rock Desert in Nevada on 15 October 1997, ThrustSSC averaged 1,227.985 kilometres per hour over two runs in opposite directions within an hour. The rules require the two way average to cancel out wind and slope, and the car exceeded the speed of sound on both runs. Two Rolls Royce Spey engines from a Phantom fighter provided about 110,000 newtons of thrust. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The jet powered car reached 1,227.985 kilometres per hour in 1997. The figure is taken from ThrustSSC, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.