ANDY GREEN

Wing Commander 'Andy D Green' OBE BA RAF (born 1962), a British RAF F-4 Phantom and Tornado F3 pilot and Officer Commanding Operations Wing at RAF Wittering, is the current holder of the land speed record and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. On September 25, 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, USA, reaching a speed of 714.144 mph (1149.30 km/h). On October 15, he reached 763.035 mph (1227.99 km/h), the first supersonic record (Mach 1.016). His other land speed attempt since has been for MG in a specially modified MG F called the MG EX255, except due to the time needed for modifications, the project was never finished on time and the attempt never happened.
Since then, Andy Green's most recent challenge was the driving of the JCB Dieselmax car, attempting to take the Diesel Land Speed Record over 300 mph. Having trialed the vehicle on his own RAF base, Wittering, On 22 August 2006, he broke the previous record of 236mph (380km/h) (set in August 1973), after attaining an average speed of 328.767mph (529km/h) during two runs on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 24 hours later, Andy Green broke his own record, achieving a speed of 350.092mph (563.418km/h) on 23 August 2006..

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★ ThrustSSC

★ JCB Dieselmax